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First Principles: A Strong Defense Is the Surest Way To Peace. Strength Makes Detente Attainable. Weakness Invites War
“A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation – my generation – knows from four very bitter experiences. Just as America’s will for peace is second to none, so … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Armed Forces, Bitter Experience, Detente, First Principles, Forbearnce, Gerald R. Ford, Nation, Peace, Power, Resolve, Security, Strength, Strong Defense, War, Weaknesss
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First Principles: We Cannot Learn From One Another Until We Stop Shouting At One Another, Until We Speak Quietly Enough So That Our Words Can Be Heard
“In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words; from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading. We cannot … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Deliver, Difficult Years, Discontent, Fever, First Priinciples, Hatred, Heard, Lean, One Another, Posture, Promise, Rhetoric, Richard M. Nixon, Shout, Speak Quietly, Voice, Words
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Rebuilding America
Rebuilding Americaby Michael DoyleOur defiant spirit makes America proud.We have more faith than we should be allowed.It wasn’t passing time that shaped us into being.Our visionaries forced us into always seeingThe shapes of things to come for our nationWere led … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Civilization, Economy, Exploration, Faith, History, Industry, Nation, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Rebuild, Shape, Spirit, The United States of America, Travel, Vision, Wilderness
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In A Brilliance of Fireworks
In A Brilliance of Fireworksby Michael DoyleFireworks, in their vivid display,Go far to celebrate our Independence Day.Shattering the skies from their darkness,Their joy removes any sense of harshness.Their radiating sparkle is a striking displayThat brings something special to our day.Up … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Brilliance, Darkness, Display, Faith, Fireworks, History, Independence Day, Joy, Poetry and Poems, Skies, Sparkle, Travel
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Face Painted As Comedy
Face Painted As Comedyby Michael DoyleFrom herder of cats to herder of men,The voice of confusion thinks itself Zen.Thirty years of perverted energyHas produced something akin to synergy.In this passage of marbled historyAre the layers of false controversy That have … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, America, Change, Choice, Comedy, Comfortably Numb, Confusion, Controversy, Die, Energy, Face Paint, Falure, Gravity, Grounded, History, Laughter, Levity, Masquerade, Neurosis and Anexiety, Original Ideas, Own, Passage, Pink Floyd, Poetry and Poems, Polite Society, Proud, Question, Rearrange, Reply, Rough Crowd, Sketches, Static, Success, Synergy, Talk, Total Sum, Voice, Walk, Zen
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On Abundance and Incompetence
On Abundance and Incompetenceby Michael DoyleAcross America, the Left rules with impotence.It’s a case of negligence and incompetence.Despite California’s being blessed by providence,Its governance provides more than ample evidence.It isn’t just an outbreak of vast stupidity.But more the case evidenced … Continue reading
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Tagged Abundance, America, California, Dependence, Feet, Governance, Hand Out, Hand Up, High Speed Trains, Impotence, Incompetence, Outbreak, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Providence, Street, Struggle, Stupidity, Teach To Fish, The Left, Truth, Wildfires
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First Principles: Immigration Is Not Just A Link To America’s Past; It’s Also a Bridge To America’s Future
“Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history. Across the Pacific, across the Atlantic, they came from every point on the compass-many passing beneath the Statue … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Bridge, First Principles, Future, George H.W. Bush, Illegal Migration, Immigration, Legal Migration, Link, Past
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First Principles: America Will Never Be Destroyed From the Outside. If We Falter And Lose Our Freedoms, It will Because We Destroyed Ourselves
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.’ – Abraham Lincoln
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, America, Destroy, Falter, First Principles, Freedoms, Ourself, Outside
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An Introduction To First Principles
There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” —George Washington (1795) In the affirmative: Though the founding principles of the United States were drawn from another era, these principles remain essential to … Continue reading
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