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On Becoming A World Power
American history continues as the United States advanced post Civil War into the early 1900s, our strength grew and with it wisely or unwisely we expanded our foreign policy out into the world with all its challenges good and bad. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1900s, 1946, Abroad, Alaska, Ambition, America, American History, Americas, Annexiation, Argue, Avarice, Becoming, Benediction, Beveridge, Booty, Canal, Caution, Civil War, Colonialism, Cuba, Dedication, Deploy, Destroy, Divide, Elite, Entanglement, Europe, Evidence, Extrication, Filipino, Flag, Focus, Foreign Policy, Free, Future, Gomper, Great Power, Grover Cleveland, Hawai'i, Heart, Ideals, Imperialism, Independence, Interest, Intrigue, Inward, John Quincy Adams, Land, Liberty, Manifest Destiny, March, Mckinley, Monroe Doctrine, Monster, Nation, Navy, Ocean, Photograph, Platte Amendment, Poem, Poetry, Practical, Puerto Rico, Racism, Reason, Remember the Maine, Republic, Russia, Samoa, Sanctimony, Self Rule, Seward's Folly, Social Darwinism, Social Gospel, Soul, Spain, Spirit, The Phillipines, Trade, Trading Port, War, War of 1812, William Howard Taft, World Power, Yellow Dog Journalism
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Death and A Desert God
A further adventure in Egyptian myth. Death and A Desert God by Michael Doyle Without ambition, Horus would quietly assert That to kill a desert god, you must kill the desert To kill a desert, requires Ra, God of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Ambition, Appetite, Bay, Breath, Chaos, Conceal, Creation, Creator, Cruel, Dark, Death, Decay, Desert, Destiny, Destruction, Dreams, Drown, Edict, Egypt, Embrace, Equal, Fight, Flight, Glory, God, Height, Hell Hounds, Hopes, Horus, Journey, Kill, Light, Lord, Might, Mortal, Night, Path, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prayer, Quest, Ra, Rot, Scarabs, Set, Shine, Stray, Sun, Uncertain, Water, Will
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A Federation Begins
In the formation of the American Constitution, the world’s political republican theory took a leap into reality despite some downsides. A Federation Begins by Michael Doyle The extending of institutionalized slavery Remains a bleak mark in American history Kicking the … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Abolition, Abomination, Accident, Ambition, American History, American Nation, Anarchy, Angels, Bad, Begin, Bill of Rights, Checks and Balances, Clause, Constituion, Contradiction, Deception, Disappear, Economy, Edict, Enslavement, Evidence, Exemplary, Federation, Foul, Founding Fathers, Freedom, Fugitive Slave, George Washington, God, Good, Government, Gratitude, Hamilton, Immaculate Conception, Incomprehensible, Indentured Servitude, Inhibition, Inhuman, Instituion, Institution, Interpretation, Issue, Jay, Kick, Knight, Language, Lesson, Liberty, Madison, Mankind, Necessary, Neglect, Offense, Oilver Ellery, Opposing View, Patrick Henry, Perfection, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Power, Protection, Ratification, Republican, Right, Roger Sherman, Slavery, Speck, Stain, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Trans-Atlantic Slavery, Transition, Unity, Wreck, Wrong
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First Principles: There Is No Government Capable of Contending With Human Passions Unbridled By Morality and Religion
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambition, Avarice, Constitution, Contend, Cord, First Principles, Gallantry, Government, Human, Inadequate, John Adams, Moral, Morality, Net, Other, Passion, People, Power, Religion, Religious, Revenge, Whale
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First Principles: Dependence Begets Subservience and Venality
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Ambition, Dependence, Design, First Principles, Germ, Pepare, Subservience, Suffocate, Thomas Jefferson, Tools, Venality, Virtue
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First Principles: Ambition Must Be Made To Counteract Ambition
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Ambition, Constitution, Control, Counteract, Device, Federalist Papers, First Principles, Government, Human Nature, Interest, James Madison, Man, Place, Reflection, Rights
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First Principles: Dependence Begets Subservience and Venality
“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Ambition, Dependence, Design, First Principles, Germ, Prepare, Subservience, Suffocate, Thomas Jefferson, Tool, Virtue
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First Principles: We Must Take Care To Elevate Our Children’s Minds, Courage and Souls Encouraging Them To Excel In Every Capacity, Faculty and Virtue
“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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambition, Capacity, Care, Children, Contempt, Couurage, Elevate, Exalt, Excel, Faculty, First Principles, Industry, Inhumanity, Injustice, John Adams, Meanness, Minds, Virtue
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