Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: Public Liberty Is the Greatest of Our Blessings

Posted on March 27, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings — give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else! Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.” – Patrick Henry (1788) … Continue reading →

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First Principles: There Are Too Many Parasites In Government Living On the Wages of the Hard Working

Posted on March 26, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Ludlow, 1824

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First Principles: Be Vigilant Of Our Rights Against Even Those Political Leaders We Least Suspect

Posted on March 25, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“[T]he people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 25, 1787 If anyone has any doubt about … Continue reading →

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First Principles: From Youth We Must Strive To Be Learned and Virtuous

Posted on March 24, 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: Without Free Thought There Cannot Be Free Speech, Public Liberty Or Wisdom

Posted on March 23, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.” – Benjamin Franklin (1722)

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First Principles: Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death

Posted on March 22, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“There is a just God who presides over the destines of nations … who will raise up friends to fight our battle for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Make Our Wish To Be Useful In Serving Our Nation

Posted on March 21, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, become honorable by being necessary.” – Nathan Hale (1776)

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First Principles: Tyranny and Oppression Will Come To America In the Name of Fighting Some Foreign Enemy

Posted on March 20, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” -James Madison, fourth US president (16 Mar 1751-1836) Power corrupts, right? There is no greater time that those in power have … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Increasing Debt Leads To Sorrow

Posted on March 19, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.” —Benjamin Franklin (1758)

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First Principles: The Power of the People To Establish Government Presupposes the Duty of Individuals To Be Good Citizens

Posted on March 18, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.” – George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796 You may read the entirety of this address … Continue reading →

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