“Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.” – Thomas Jefferson (1791)
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First Principles: Natural Rights Are the Objects For the Protection of Which Society Is Formed and Municipal Laws Established
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Tagged Establish, First Principles, Form, Municipal Law, Natural Rights, Objects, Protection, Society, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: Arbitrary Power Will Have Divided Men of Superior Intelligence Into Two Groups: the Former Will Be Seditious, the Latter Corrupt
“Thus arbitrary power will have divided men of superior intelligence into two groups: the former will be seditious, the latter corrupt.” – Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)
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
“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.” – Samuel Adams (1772)
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Thought For the Day: The Walls of Books Around Me, Dense With the Past, Formed A Kind of Insulation Against the Present World and Its Disasters
“The walls of books around me, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.” – Ross Macdonald, novelist (13 Dec 1915-1983)
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Tagged Books, Dense, Disaster, Form, Insulation, Past, Present World, Ross MacDonald, Thought For the Day, Walls
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First Principles: If We Suffer Their Minds To Grovel and Creep In Infancy, They Will Grovel All Their Lives
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.” – John Adams (1756)
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Tagged Amition, Capacity, Care, Children, Contempt of Meanness, Courage, Excel, Faculty, First Principles, Govel, Industry, Infancy, Inhumanity, Injustice, John Adams, Lives, Minds, Virtue
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Thought For the Day: The Preservation of Freedom Is the Protective Reason For Limiting and Decentralizing Governmental Power
“The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power. But there is also a constructive reason. The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or in literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.” – Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
First Principles: Society In Every State Is A Blessing, But Government, Even In Its Best State, Is But A Necessary Evil
“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.” – Thomas Paine (1776)
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A Victory of Joy
A Victory of Joy
by Michael Doyle
Jesus is the focus of joy in relationship
He is the purpose of and for our worship
This is the blessing we're receiving
And it all begins with our believing
Faith is the thing needed to nurture
As it is the best path for our future
No one comes to God but through this path
The slippery slope is as fuzzy as new math
Atheism is impressive in ignoring God's imprint
All the broken paradigms missing what is heaven sent
Belief brings the powerful to our days
And shapes our lives in multiple sorts of ways
Like Peter in his vapid times of open skepticism
We bump into the truth through a glaze of optimism
Shaping our living hope through earnest praises
That are locally grown through the disciples' graces
Hijacked language becomes something redefined
Until it is diluted into good vibes singularly underlined
We must remain confident in our every moment
In joyful anticipation and not in any sense of diffidence
Conformed in every moment, we live the wonder years
That come to us all in the laughter and the tears
In the end, we survive our days of wounding persecution
Lived through unto the end of our holiest of salvation
Whatever comes in life that brings us daily stresses
Might best be thought of rethought of our best blessings
Problems can be many with all that we often go through
But it's best to keep our eyes on the promises come true
In this living trust fund of joy that we inherit
It's the bearable unbearable that we truly merit
Love becomes known without lingering hesitation
When you no longer live with unanswerable questions
Suffering and joy work together always hand-in-hand
It's like the giving of birth, a mother stands
Our lives become the joy that announce God's glory
This is the simple truth of our complicated story
We have won our final victory over the death
Found in the reality until our last breaths
This then is where we find our way to happiness
And the joy that brings our honesty and our bliss
(c) December 11, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Anticipation, Atheism, Believing, Blessing, Broken Paradigm, Faith, Future, God's Imprint, Good Vibes, Grace, Heaven Sent, Hijacked Language, Jesus, Joy, Path, Peter, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Receiving, Relationship, Skepticism, Slippery Slope, Victory, Worship
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First Principles: Our Situation Before Has Been Unpromising and Has Changed For the Better, So, I Trust, It Will Again
“We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.” – George Washington1777)
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Thought For the Day: The Line Dividing Good and Evil Cuts Through the Heart of Every Human Being
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? – Alexander Solzhenitsyn, novelist, Nobel laureate (11 Dec 1918-2008)
