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First Principles: Our Republic’s Most Sacred Duty Is An Inviolable Respect for the Constitution and Laws
“If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws – the first growing out of the last.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Constitution, Duty, First Principles, Laws, Republic, Respect, Sacred
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First Principles: We Are Either A United Nation Or Not A Nation
“We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all matters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are … Continue reading
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Tagged Character, First Prinicples, George Washington, Nation, National Goals, People, United
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First Principles: Too Often Opponents Seek Advantage In Being Loud and Bitter
“To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will mutually hope to evince the justness of their opinions, and to increase the number of their converts by the loudness of the … Continue reading
First Principles: Each Person Is Protected In the Right To Worship Per the Dictates of Their Conscience
“[E]very man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.” – George Washington, letter to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountable, Citizen, Conscience, First Principles, Free Will, George Washington, God, Individual, Protected, Religious Perspective, Worship
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First Principles: No Wall of Words Can Withstand Boundless Ambition and Corrupted Morals
“No compact among men … can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of … Continue reading
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Tagged Agreement, Ambition, Compact, Corruption, First Inaugural, First Principles, George Washington, Morals, Princples, Words
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First Principles: Tariffs Tend To Increase Prices For the Items Being Protected
“Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.” – Alexander Hamilton (1791) While the purposes behind the tariffs might be well intended. The outcome is not very likely … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, First Principles, Foreign Competition, Free Market, Free Trade, Measures, Price, Tariff
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First Principles: Laws Should Be Consistent and Easily Understood
“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws … undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess … Continue reading
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Tagged Consistent, Defined, First Principles, James Madison, Law, Rule, Steady, Understandable
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First Principles: Gun Control Laws Only Disarm The Law Abiding
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.” – Cesare Beccaria This from the quill of one of the greatest thinkers of the Enlightenment Period. Very little changes … Continue reading
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Tagged Cesare Beccaria, Criminal, Disarming, First Principles, Law, Law Abiding, Right to Bear Arms
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First Principles: What Is Inside A Person Matters More Than Appearance
“Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds.” – George Washington (1783) The worth of any person comes from what is inside not outward appearance. I cannot count the number of … Continue reading
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Tagged Appearance, Character, Conception, First Principles, George Washington, Substance, Vanity
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First Principles: A Nation Should Strive For Wisdom and Virtue In Its Example
“Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 36, 1788
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Example, First Principles, Happiness, Honor, Human Nature, The Federalist Papers, Virtue, Wisdom
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