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First Principles: God Forbid That Day Should Ever Come When, In the American Mind, the Thought of Man As Consumer Shall Submerge …Man As A Creature of God

“God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with unalienable rights.” – Benjamin Harrison

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First Principles: Prayer Steadies One When He Is Walking In Slippery Places – Even If Things Asked For Are Not Given

“Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places – even if things asked for are not given.” – Benjamin Harrison

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First Principles: We Cannot Make Financial Matters Right By Taking From One What He Has Honestly Acquired To Give to Another Who Has Not Earned

“The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous…. No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a … Continue reading

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