Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: No People Can Be Bound To Acknowledge and Adore the Invisible Han, Which Conducts the Affairs of Men More Than the People of the United States

Posted on January 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States…Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Only A Virtuous People Are Capable of Freedom. As Nations Become Corrupt and Vicious, They Have More Need of Masters

Posted on January 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” – Benjamin Franklin

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

Posted on January 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” – Thomas Jefferson (1824)

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First Principles: We Know That In All Things God Works For the Good of Those Who Love Him, Who Have Been Called According To His Purpose

Posted on January 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose.” – Romans 8:28 (NIV)

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First Principles: Moses Lifting Up His Wand, and Dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh In His Chariot Overwhelmed With the Waters. This Motto: “Rebellion To Tyrants Is Obedience To God

Posted on January 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the red sea, and pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: ‘Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.’” – Benjamin Franklin, on being appointed to a committee to draft a … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Right of Freely Examining Public Characters and Measures, and of Free Communication…Has Ever Been Just Deemed the Only Effectual Guardian of Every Other Right

Posted on January 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon … has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.” – James Madison (1798)

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First Principles: There Is No Good Government But What Is Republican

Posted on January 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“There is no good government but what is republican.” – John Adams (1776)

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First Principles: I Never Doubted, For Instance, the Existence of the Deity; That He Made the World, and Governed It By His Providence

Posted on January 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that he made the world, and governed it by his Providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Bountiful Father!…Increase In Me That Wisdom Which Discovers My Truest Interest. Strengthen My Resolution To Perform What That Wisdom Dictates

Posted on January 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates.” – Benjamin Franklin, in his Autobiography (Yet some still try to paint Franklin as … Continue reading →

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First Principles: True Religion Does Not Draw Men Out of the World But Enables Them To Live Better In It and Excites Their Endeavors To Mend It

Posted on January 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“True religion does not draw men out of the world but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.” – William Penn

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