Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: Heavy Taxation Leads To Wretchedness and Oppression

Posted on February 25, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.” – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Samuel Kerchival, 1816 The correct thing to do about many of the issues touted as … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Encroachments On Liberty Often Have Small Beginnings

Posted on February 24, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprised in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Right To Freedom Is God Given and Cannot Be Given Up

Posted on February 23, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“If men … give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Our Constitution Was Meant For A Moral People

Posted on February 22, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams (1798) Times like these require and deserve a reminder of this. The truth. Plain and simple, … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Secrecy Should Not Be A Regular System of Government

Posted on February 20, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.” -Jeremy Bentham, jurist and philosopher (15 Feb 1748-1832) While I recognize we are borrowing another country’s philosopher to illustrate a valid point, it is, … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Heresies In Politics and Religion Are Rarely Cured By Persecution

Posted on February 19, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.” – Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 1 (1787) … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Education and Free Discussion Cures Ignorance and Bigotry

Posted on February 18, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, 1816

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First Principles: Interference In Free, Elections Endangers Our Republic

Posted on February 17, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” – John Adams (1797) If … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Faith Mitigates the Wickedness of Humanity

Posted on February 16, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?” —Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: There Will Always Be Much Error In Politics

Posted on February 15, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings and a system of measures, correspondently erroneous.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 35, 1788

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