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First Principles: The Known Propensity of Democracy Is Toward Licentiousness
“The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.” – Fisher Ames, speech in the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788
First Principles: No Constitution Can Stand Alone Against Boundless Ambition and Corrupted Morals
“No compact among men … can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and … no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambition, Compact, Corruption, Everlasting, First Principles, George Washington, Parchment, Vigilance
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First Principles: The Right To Bear Arms Protects The People From Tyranny
“The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.” … Continue reading
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Tagged 2nd Amendment, Ambition, America, Defense, First Principles, Inalienable Right, Right to Bear Arms, Tyranny, We The People
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First Principles: No Wall of Words Can Withstand Boundless Ambition and Corrupted Morals
“No compact among men … can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of … Continue reading
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Tagged Agreement, Ambition, Compact, Corruption, First Inaugural, First Principles, George Washington, Morals, Princples, Words
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First Principles: Knowing History Is A Great Starting Point In Gauging the Present and Future
“History by apprising [citizens] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of … Continue reading
First Principles: Dependence Begets Subservience
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781) The entitlement programs of America have come to be taken for granted. And now, as we watch … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambition, Dependence, First Principles, Subservience, Thomas Jefferson, Tools, Venality, Virtue
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