Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: The Great Desiderata Are A Free Representation and Mutual Checks. When These Are Obtained, All Our Apprehensions of the Extent of Powers Are Unjust and Imaginary

Posted on July 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The great desiderata are a free representation and mutual checks. When these are obtained, all our apprehensions of the extent of powers are unjust and imaginary.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)

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First Principles: How Few There Are Who Have Courage Enough To Own Their Faults, Or Resolution Enough To Mend Them

Posted on July 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: The Lord Will Guide You Always; He Will Satisfy Your Needs In A Sun-Scorched Land and Will Strengthen Your Frame

Posted on June 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.” – Isaiah 58:11

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First Principles: You Will Never Do Anything In This World Without Courage. It Is the Greatest Quality of the Mind Next To Honor

Posted on June 29, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” – Aristotle

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First Principles: The Right To Freedom Being the Gift of God Almighty, It Is Not In the Power of Man To Alienate This Gift, and Voluntarily Become A Slave

Posted on June 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the … Continue reading →

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First Principles: That Form of Government Which Is Best Contrived To Secure An Impartial and Exact Execution of the Law, Is the Best of Republics

Posted on June 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“That form of government which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the law, is the best of republics.”– John Adams (1776)

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First Principles: The Essence of Government Is Power; and Power, Lodged As It Must Be In Human Hands, Will Ever Be Liable To Abuse

Posted on June 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” – James Madison (1829)

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First Principles: We Are What We Repeatedly Do. Excellence, Then, Is Not An Act, But A Habit

Posted on June 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

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First Principles: Never Suppose In Any Possible Situation, Or Under Any Circumstances, It Is Best For You To Do A Dishonorable Thing

Posted on June 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Blessed Is the Nation Whose God Is the Lord; and the People Whom He Hath Chosen For His Own Inheritance

Posted on June 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.” – Psalms 33:12

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