“The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.” – George Washington (1788)
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First Principles: The Consciousness of Having Discharged That Duty Which We Owe To Our Country Is Superior To All Other Considerations
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Thought For the Day: The Safest Way To Make Laws Respected Is To Make Them Respectable
“The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.” – Frédéric Bastiat
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First Principles: Be Courteous To All, But Intimate With Few, and Let Those Few Be Well Tried Before You Give Them Your Confidence
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks and adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington, letter to Bushrod Washington, 1783
Thought For the Day: Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” – Ronald Reagan
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First Principles: God Who Gave Us Life Gave Us Liberty
“God who gave us life gave us Liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.” – Thomas Jefferson (1774)
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On Being the G.O.A.T….
On Being the G.O.A.T....
by Michael Doyle
How to be the greatest of all time
Is to go beyond that easy rhyme
And move past our selfish nature
Growing in the Lord and becoming mature
Standing in life judging one another
Debating who is best among all others
The first must be last to be the best
This then is the answer to that contest
Passover's last supper was one held late
As Jesus washed disciples' feet, knowing his fate
Life then is to be lived in service to all
It is our honor and duty to ever recall
Setting the example for us to follow
To do what has been shown as the flow
In all of life that comes to greet
It begins with the willingness to wash another's feet
The journey of life is not about being the latest
And self-adulation does not make you the greatest
Understanding this is its own healing moment
When a mustard seed's faith rids you of this torment
In allowing God to work His works through us all
And keeping His word in our good and ready recall
True greatness is achieved through true humility
It is by giving up false titles that we reach nobility
Denying ourselves to take up the cause of the cross
And accepting that servant leadership is victory not loss
Take the crucifixion meant to cause full humiliation
By taking one's very breath into life's final suffocation
Learning that to gain our highest place of latitude
We must become obedient to death in our best attitude
Indeed to become the greatest of all time
We must acknowledge this truth in our rhymes
Agree with each other
Always loving one another
Forget yourself and lend the needed hand
In doing this, you fully, finally understand
(c) July 3, 2022 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Love Your Neighbor As Yourself and Your Country More Than Yourself
“Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.” – Thomas Jefferson (1825)
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Thought For the Day: Many A Book Is Like A Key To Unknown Chambers Within the Castle of One’s Own Self
“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
– Franz Kafka
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Forge of Identity
Forge of Identity
by Michael Doyle
Alexander's naked tears were wept
For the one secret that could not be kept
That there was an unconquered infinity
Of worlds to be experienced on his journey
That would never be his in infinite refrain
None of which could know his secret stain
A darkness that crept in like a remnant of dream
To defile the purest flowing stream
Opened like a jewelry box thrown in the trash
Filled with memories of a dancer who had to crash
And burn for the memories that were left behind
It was too late, pushed away inside the mind
Tools kept sharp in hopes of building immortality
Unobstructed with fears of near certain fatality
The death bringer reaches for that mystic door
Just another trap of illusion and nothing more
For those who will not heed given advice
There is a method to the madness and its price
Layer upon layer, life serves as a snare
In lines of code that release a life unfair
There's always an angle to seeking control
It's a desperate desire to release the immortal soul
In the end, even the Devil wants in the game
For the sake of self-knowledge that beings its shame
In the cradle of forged identity
The world molds its new reality
All that is left are the shards of confusion
That's all that's left when all the world is illusion
(c) July 2, 2022 Michael Doyle
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