Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: The More People Who Own Little Businesses of Their Own, the Safer Our Country Will Be, and the Better Off Its Cities and Towns

Posted on May 8, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best … Continue reading →

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First Principles: We the People, Elect Leaders Not To Rule But To Serve

Posted on May 7, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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First Principles: Give Me the Liberty To Know, To Utter, and To Argue Freely According To Conscience, Above All Liberties

Posted on May 6, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” – John Milton

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First Principles: Christianity, By Introducing Into Europe the Truest Principles of Humanity, Universal Benevolence, and Brotherly Love, Had Happily Abolished Civil Slavery

Posted on May 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us who profess the same religion practice its precepts… by agreeing to this duty.” – Richard Henry Lee

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First Principles: It Does not, Therefore, Depend on Human Desire Or Effort, But On God’s Mercy

Posted on May 4, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.” – Romans 9:16 NIV

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First Principles: We Must Go Home To Be Happy, and Our Home Is Not In This World. Here We Have Nothing To Do But Our Duty

Posted on May 3, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“We must go home to be happy, and our home is not in this world. Here we have nothing to do but our duty.” – John Jay

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First Principles: Walking Is the Best Possible Exercise. Habituate Yourself To Walk Very Far

Posted on May 2, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.” – Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: On This National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, We Ask Almighy God To Watch Over Our Nation and Grant As Patience and Resolve In All That Is To Come

Posted on May 1, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“On this National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, we ask almighty God to watch over our nation, and grant us patience and resolve in all that is to come. We pray that He will comfort and console those who now … Continue reading →

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First Principles: To Model Our Political Systems Upon Speculations of Lasting Tranquility Would Be To Calculate On the Weaker Springs of Human Character

Posted on April 30, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“To model our political systems upon speculations of lasting tranquillity would be to calculate on the weaker springs of human character.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)

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First Principles: Nothing Is More Essential To the Establishment of Manners In A State Than That All Persons Employed In Places of Power and Trust Must Be Men of Unexceptional Characters

Posted on April 29, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.” – Samuel Adams (1775)

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