Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: Truth Is Ever To Be Found In the Simplicity, and Not In the Multiplicity and Confusion of Things

Posted on June 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” – Isaac Newton

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First Principles: It Seems To Have To Have Been Reserved To the People of This Country, By their Conduct and Example, To Decide the Important Questions

Posted on June 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important questions, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or … 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 20, 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: Ambition Must Be Made To Counteract Ambition. There Interest of the Man Must Be Connected With the Constitutional Rights of the Place

Posted on June 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Nature Intended Me For the Tranquil Pursuits of Science, By Rendering Them My Supreme Delight

Posted on June 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight.” – Thomas Jefferson, in his Letter to DuPont de Nemours as cited in Benson, 1971)

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First Principles: The Right of the Citizens To Keep and Bear Arms Has Justly Been Considered As the Palladium of the Liberties of A Republic

Posted on June 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.” – Joseph Story

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First Principles: What Makes You A Man Is Not the Ability To Have A Child – It’s the Courage To Raise one

Posted on June 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child – it’s the courage to raise one.” – Barak Obama

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First Principles: Let the American Youth Never Forget, That They Possess A Noble Inheritance, Bought By the Toils, and Sufferings and Blood of Their Ancestors

Posted on June 15, 2024 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: You Have Heard That It Was Said, ‘Love Your Neighbor and Hate Your Enemy.’ But I Tell You , Love Your Enemies and Pray For Those Who Persecute You

Posted on June 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.“ – Matthew 5:43-44

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First Principles: We Lay It Down As Fundamental, That Laws, To be Just, Must Give A Reciprocation of Right; Without this, The Are Mere Arbitrary Rules of Conduct

Posted on June 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.” -Thomas Jefferson, in Notes On … Continue reading →

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