Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: To Right Our Republic’s Course We Must Restore Our First Principles

Posted on August 22, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” – Montesquieu, in … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Science Opens Eyes To Truth

Posted on August 21, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Precious Blessings of America Need To Be Appreciated

Posted on August 20, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!” – Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to James Monroe, on June 17, 1785 It is too easy to … Continue reading →

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First Principles: It Is God, Not Man’s Words That Protect Us From Corruption

Posted on August 19, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Unlimited Taxation Is the Power to Destroy

Posted on August 18, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.” —John Marshall (1819) In an interesting aside the Plaintiff in this matter was represented … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Dishonesty Poisons the Heart, Soul and Mind

Posted on August 17, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good disposition.” —Thomas Jefferson (1785) Fairly self explanatory on a personal level, isn’t it? And when the media has decided to become propaganda … Continue reading →

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First Principles: States Have Rights Within Their Own Orbits

Posted on August 16, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits.” — John Dickinson (Delaware … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Revolution Was Fought For Freedom and Honest Persons

Posted on August 15, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.” —Thomas Paine (1777), in The American Crisis No. 4 This essay may be read in its entirety … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Art of Government Is In Honestly Doing One’s Duty

Posted on August 14, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.” —Thomas Jefferson (1774), in the Rights of British America

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First Principles: Term Limits Compels Consideration of the Governed

Posted on August 13, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens. – George Mason, Speech … Continue reading →

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