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First Principles: The Time To Guard Against Corruption and Tyranny, Is Before They Shall Have Gotten Hold of Us

Posted on July 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Mankind soon learn to make interested uses of every right and power which they possess, or may assume. The public money and public liberty, intended to have been deposited with three branches of magistracy, but found inadvertently to be in … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Fear of Serious Injury Cannot Alone Justify Suppression of Free Speech and Assembly

Posted on January 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.” – Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)

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First Principles: In All Very Numerous Assemblies, of Whatever Character Composed, Passion Never Fails To Wrest the Scepter From Reason

Posted on July 26, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason.” – James Madison , Federalist No. 55 (February 15,1788)

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Lessons From Alcestis

Posted on March 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Lessons From Alcestisby Michael DoyleAlcestis was the fairest of daughtersMuch beloved by Pelias, her fatherSo too loved by her husband, AdmetusAnd of her son, the warrior EumelusFearing that death might come to soonMade Admetus err in bringing love to ruinFor … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Passion Never Fails to Wrest the Scepter From Reason

Posted on December 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.” – James Madison (1788)

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The Death of Empires and America Marches On

Posted on April 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

American history continues through the beginning of the Great Depression. The Death of Empires and America Marches On by Michael Doyle The end of the Great War brought down empires from prior Redrawing Europe’s map by 14 Points down to … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Passion Never Fails To Wrest the Sceptre From Reason

Posted on April 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. … Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.” – Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist … Continue reading →

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Bricks Into the Future

Posted on January 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

We live in an interesting time of transition. Into what exactly is yet to be seen. It’s both exciting and scary to watch and more to be part of this transformation. Greater degrees of uniqueness have somehow merged into a … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Beware of the Passion That Wrests the Scepter From Reason

Posted on November 1, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.” – James Madison, Federalist 55

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