Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship With All Nations, Entangling Alliances With None

Posted on February 15, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)

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First Principles: Love Is Patient, Love Is Kind…It Always Protects, Always Trusts, Always Hopes, Always Perseveres

Posted on February 14, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Liberty Is Meaningless Where the Right To Utter One’s Thoughts and Opinions Has Ceased To Exist. That, of All Rights, Is the Dread of Tyrants

Posted on February 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. … Continue reading →

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First Principles: We the People Are the Rightful Masters of Both Congress and the Courts, Not To Overthrow the Constitution But To Overthrow the Men Who Pervert the Constitution

Posted on February 12, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” – Abraham Lincoln (The true story behind this attribution can be found here: … Continue reading →

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First Principles: We Have More Machinery of Government Than Is Necessary, Too Many Parasites Living On the Labor of the Industrious

Posted on February 11, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have … … Continue reading →

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First Principles: In Disquisitions of Every Kind There are Certain Primary Truths, Or First Principles, Upon Which All Subsequent Reasoning Must Depend

Posted on February 10, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)

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First Principles: No One Will Be Declared Righteous In God’s Sight By Observing the Law; Rather, Through the Law We Become Conscious of Our Sin

Posted on February 9, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.” – Romans 3:20

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First Principles: The Multiplication of Public Officers, Increase of Expense Beyond Income, Growth and Entailment of a Public Debt, Are Indications Soliciting the Employment of the Pruning Knife

Posted on February 8, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt, are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.” – Thomas Jefferson (1821)

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First Principles: Hold Fast To the Bible As The Sheet-Anchor of Your Liberties; Write Its Precepts In Your Hearts, and Practice Them In Your Lives

Posted on February 7, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.” – Ulysses S. Grant

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First Principles: To Be Prepared For War, Is One of the Most Effectual Means of Preserving Peace

Posted on February 6, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” – George Washington (1790)

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