Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: The Road That Providence Has Set For the United States Should Never Be Abandoned

Posted on April 6, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Good Moral Character Is the First Essential In A Man

Posted on April 5, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“[A] good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should … Continue reading →

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First Principles: All Slavery Should Be Held In Abhorrence

Posted on April 4, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States. … I have, throughout my whole life, held the practice of slavery in … abhorrence.” – John Adams (1819) The … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Everyone Has the Right To Worship According To Their Conscience

Posted on April 3, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“As neither reason requires, nor religion permits the contrary, every man living in or out of a state of civil society, has a right peaceably and quietly to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience.” –Samuel Adams, A … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Rights Cannot Be Secured As Inalienable Without A God

Posted on April 2, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781) … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Evidence For Christianity’s Truthfulness Requires Only Honest Examination

Posted on April 1, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The evidence of the truth of Christianity requires only to be carefully examined to produce conviction in candid minds… they who undertake that task will derive advantages.” – John Jay, one of the First Presidents of Congress; Diplomat; Author of … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Christianity Introduced The Moral Precepts That Form the Base Of Our Republic

Posted on March 31, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles… This is genuine Christianity and to this we owe our free constitutions of government.” “The moral principles and precepts found in the Scriptures ought to … Continue reading →

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First Principles: An Objective Standard of Right and Wrong Morality Is Best Applied To the Affairs of Mankind

Posted on March 30, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?” – … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Federal Government Should Be Most Focused On External Goals

Posted on March 29, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Another not unimportant consideration is, that the powers of the general government will be, and indeed must be, principally employed upon external objects, such as war, peace, negotiations with foreign powers, and foreign commerce.” – Joseph Story (1833) … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Right To Bear Arms Protects The People From Tyranny

Posted on March 28, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.” … Continue reading →

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