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First Principles: Laws, To Be Just, Must Give A Reciprocation of Right; That Without This, They are Mere Arbitrary Rules of Conduct, Founded In Force, And Not In Conscience
“We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.” – Thomas Jefferson (1782)
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First Principles: We Lay It Down As Fundamental, That Laws, To be Just, Must Give A Reciprocation of Right; Without this, The Are Mere Arbitrary Rules of Conduct
“We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.” -Thomas Jefferson, in Notes On … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: A Story Has No Beginning Or End: Arbitrarily One Chooses That Moment of Experience From Which To Look Back Or From Which To Look Ahead
“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” – Graham Greene
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Selective Slackerism
Selective Slackerismby Michael DoyleWhen every word that has been written and readAnd when every loss has been found in things saidIt comes down to something less than intellectualBetween the discipline and the passing ineffectualWins and losses are shared within life’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Arbitrary, Challenges, Characteristic, Condescension, Discipline, Every Word, Fair Share, Inattention, Ineffectual, Intellectual, Loss, Mundane, Passing Regrets, Poetry and Poems, Primary, Process, Qwichanist, Satisfaction, Selective, Slackerism, Sloth, Stigma, Success, Tasks, Things Said, Wins and Losses
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First Principles: Laws, To Be Just, Must Give A Reciprocation of Right;…Without This, They Are Mere Arbitrary Rules of Conduct, Founded In Force
“We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.” – Thomas Jefferson (1782)
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Tagged Arbitrary, Conscience, First Principles, Force, Founded, Fundamental, Just, Laws, Reciprocation of Right, Rules of Conduct, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Laws, To Be Just, Must Give A Reciprocation of Right. Without This, They Are Mere Arbitrary Rules of Conduct
“We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.” – Thomas Jefferson (1782) … Continue reading
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On the 1619 Project
An ahistorical work that seeks to repudiate the founding principles of America won the Pulitzer Prize today. In my eyes, all luster is now gone to both the Nobel prizes and the Pulitzer with this move. It’s not … Continue reading
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First Principles: We Are Intended To A Nation Ruled By Law and Not Men
“They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.” – John Adams
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First Principles: Arbitrary Power Rises From Liberty Ruined By Licentiousness
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” – George Washington (1753)
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