Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: Steady Employment and Regular Worship Is For the Nation’s Good

Posted on December 27, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“The almost general mediocrity of fortune that prevails in America obliging its people to follow some business for subsistence, those vices, that arise usually from idleness, are in a great measure prevented. Industry and constant employment are great preservatives of … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Disarming the People Is the Surest Way To Enslaving Them

Posted on December 26, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” — George Mason, Speech During Virginia’s Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788 … Continue reading →

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First Principles: America Should Never Forget the Role God Has Played In Our Heritage

Posted on December 25, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Protection of Person and Property Are the Two Proper Aims of Government

Posted on December 24, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Power Should Be Restrained From Encroaching

Posted on December 23, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.” –James Madison, Federalist No. 48, 1788

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First Principles: Excessive Taxation Brings the Ruin of A Nation

Posted on December 22, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much as the business of taxation. The man who understands those principles best will be least … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Avoiding Fraud, Waste and Abuse Is Paramount to Honest Government

Posted on December 21, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.” — Thomas Jefferson (1823) We can always think of more things to spend money on right? … Continue reading →

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First Principles: We Should Observe More Commandments and Less Holidays

Posted on December 20, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“How many observe Christ’s birth-day! How few, his precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.” — Benjamin Franklin (1743) Cute little poem that I found on another’s blog.. thought some here might enjoy it? http://benfranklincraftsmonroe.blogspot.com/2016/12/how-ben-franklin-saved-christmas.html … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Main Purpose of the Constitution Is To Bind Government From Mischief

Posted on December 19, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” — Thomas Jefferson (1798) If Jefferson had been alive during the Obama Administration in … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Tyranny Can Appear Under Any Form of Government

Posted on December 18, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“The outstretched arm of tyranny … may appear under any mode or form of government.” – Mercy Warren (1805) And that is precisely what is going on with this witch hunt against the Trump Administration. Revealed again in recent testimony … Continue reading →

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