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First Principles: Be Just Friends and Brave Enemies
“I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved. But whensoever hostile aggressions require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world … Continue reading
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First Principles: Fight Every Tyranny Over the Mind of Man
“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” – Thomas Jefferson All ideas should be open for discussion in a free market place of ideas. This is the … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Constitution Constrains the Government Not the People
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.” – Patrick Henry
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First Principles: Part of the Greatness of America Rests In Learning From Mistakes
“The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.” – Alexis de Toqueville A classic example of this might currently be in how much latitude we … Continue reading
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First Principles: Keeping Its Principles Is Fundamental to Good Government
“The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.” – Baron de Montesqieu
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First Principles: Perpetual Public Debt Brings Servitude of the People
“I place economy among the first and important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and … Continue reading
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First Principles: Resist the Tyranny That Would Attempt To Take Inalienable Rights
“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual…continue steadfast and with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” – John … Continue reading
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First Principles: Do Not Squander Time
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.” – Benjamin Franklin Wiser words were seldom said by anyone than by one of the persons in history that I admire … Continue reading
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First Principles: A Republic Is the Only Government Not At War With Man
“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.” —Thomas Jefferson (1790)
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First Principles: The Establishment Clause Served to Prevent A National Church
“The real object of the Amendment was, not to countenance, much less advance Mahommedianism, or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment, which should give to … Continue reading →