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First Principles: Strive To Be the Greatest Man In Your Country, and You May Be Disappointed. Strive To Be the Best and You May Succeed. He May well Win the Race That Runs By Himself

Posted on March 22, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Strive to be the greatest man in your country, and you may be disappointed. Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.” -Benjamin Franklin (1747)

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First Principles: Without Continual Growth and Progress, Such Words As Improvement, Achievement, and Success Have No Meaning

Posted on March 5, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: An Equal Dispensation of Protection, Rights, Privileges, and Advantages, Is What Every Part Is Entitled To, and Ought To Enjoy

Posted on January 3, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Be At War With Your Vices, At Peace With Your Neighbors, and Let Every New Year Find You A Better Man

Posted on January 1, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbors, and let every New-Year find you a better Man.” – Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: No Nation Has Ever Been Ruined By Trade

Posted on November 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“No nation has ever been ruined by trade.” – Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: Life Is A Kind of Chess, In Which We Have Often Points To Gain, and Competitors or Adversaries To Contend With

Posted on November 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Freedom of Speech Is A Principal Pillar of A Free Government: When This Support Is Taken Away, the Constitution of a Free Society Is Dissolved

Posted on October 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved.” – Benjamin Franklin, in The Pennsylvania Gazette

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First Principles: Without Freedom of Thought There Can Be No Such Thing As Wisdom; and No Such Thing As Public Liberty, Without Freedom of Speech

Posted on September 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” – Benjamin Franklin (1722)

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First Principles: Whoever Would Overthrow the Liberty of A Nation Must Begin By Subduing the Freedom of Speech

Posted on August 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” – Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: If Men Are So Wicked With Religion, What Would They Be Without It?

Posted on August 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?” – Benjamin Franklin

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