Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: Legislation Can Neither Be Wise Nor Just Which Seeks the Welfare of A Single Interest At the Expense and To the Injury of Many and Varied Interests

Posted on January 2, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

“Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.” – Andrew Johnson

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First Principles: The Best Way To Predict the Future Is To Create It

Posted on January 1, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln

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First Principles: With the New Day Comes New Strength and New Thoughts

Posted on December 31, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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First Principles: 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

Posted on December 30, 2025 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.” – Thomas Jefferson … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Greater Part of Our Misery or Unhappiness Is Determined Not By Our Circumstance But By Our Disposition

Posted on December 29, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.” – Martha … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Stand At the Crossroads and Look; Ask For the Ancient Paths, Ask Where the Good Way Is, and Walk In It, and You Will Find Rest For Your Souls

Posted on December 28, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“This is what the Lord says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths,ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ – Jeremiah 6:16 NIV

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First Principles: It Will Be Of Little Avail To the People That the Laws Are Made By Me of Their Own Choice If the Laws Be So Voluminous That They Cannot Be Read, Or So Incoherent That They Cannot Be Understood

Posted on December 27, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” – … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Unless the People, Through Unified Action, Arise and Take Charge of Their Government, They Will Find That Their Government Has Taken Charge of Them

Posted on December 26, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition … Continue reading →

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First Principles: For God So Loved the World, That He Gave His Only Begotten Son, That Whosoever Believeth In Him Should Not Perish, But Have Everlasting Life

Posted on December 25, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” – John 3:16 Merry Christmas, one and all!

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First Principles: “The Only Foundation For…A Republic Is To Laid in Religion. Without This There Can Be No Virtue, and Without Virtue There Can Be No Liberty

Posted on December 24, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The only foundation for… a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.” – Benjamin … Continue reading →

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