Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: As Parents, We Can Have No Joy, Knowing That This Government Is…Running the Next Generation Into Debt

Posted on August 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Constitution of Government Once Changed From Freedom, Can Never Be Restored. Liberty, Once Lost, Is Lost Forever

Posted on August 25, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” – John Adams

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First Principles: Speak Seldom, But To Important Subjects, Except Such As Particularly Relate To Your Constituents, and, In the Former Case, Make Yourself Perfectly Master of the Subject

Posted on August 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject.” – George Washington (1787)

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First Principles: I Think the Best Way of Doing Good To the Poor, Is Not Making Them Easy In Poverty, But Leading or Driving them Out of It

Posted on August 23, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the … Continue reading →

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First Principles: America – Freedom Is the Open Window Through Which Pours the Sunlight of the Human Spirit and Human Dignity

Posted on August 22, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. – Herbert Hoover

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First Principles: We Should Be Unfaithful To Ourselves If We Should Ever Lose Sight of the Danger To Our Liberties If Anything Partial or Extraneous Should Infect the Purity…of Our Free…Elections

Posted on August 21, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” – John Adams (1797)

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First Principles: Keep This Book of the Law Always On Your Lips; Meditate On It Day and Night, So That You may Be Careful To Do Everything Written In It

Posted on August 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.” – Joshua 1:8

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First Principles: It Takes A Slightly Better Man To Acknowledge Instantly and Without Reservation That He Is in Error

Posted on August 19, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.” – Andrew Jackson

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First Principles: Is There No Virtue Among Us? If There Be Not, We Are In A Wretched Situation

Posted on August 18, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation.” – James Madison (1788)

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First Principles: I Ask Who Are the Militia? They Consist of the Whole People

Posted on August 17, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“I ask, Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.” – George Mason (1788)

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