Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: Trying Times Take Courage To Facedown

Posted on September 9, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Immigrants Conforming To Our Nation’s Principles and Laws Are Welcome

Posted on September 8, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Democracy Rapidly Deteriorates Into the Law of the Jungle

Posted on September 7, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these … Continue reading →

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First Principles: America’s Youth Must Always Remember Its Noble Inheritance

Posted on September 6, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The First Line of Safety Is People Helping People

Posted on September 5, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“The ingredients which constitute safety in the republican sense are, first, a due dependence on the people, secondly, a due responsibility.” —Alexander Hamilton (1788) One need only look at how people of walks in life have come together and helped … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Good Government Protects Labor From Injury and Theft

Posted on September 4, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“A wise and frugal government… shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. … Continue reading →

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First Principles: It Is Better To Die Free Than Live As Slaves

Posted on September 3, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Well Thought Out Morals, Actions and Policies Lead to The Best Outcomes

Posted on September 2, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.” —George … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Action Plan – Engagement

Posted on September 1, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

After considerable thought and watching how American principles are again and again being usurped by those who do not have any greater right to a voice in defining the future of America than we Americans who believe in the founding … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Greatest Good for Our Country Is Healing and Unity

Posted on September 1, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.” —Thomas Jefferson (1801) Interesting sidebar here.. before anyone goes tearing down monuments for Thomas Jefferson, please know this. He proposed ending … Continue reading →

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