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First Principles: The Best Hope In Continuing Our Republic Is In Proper Moral and Religious Training of Our Children
“The only ground of hope for the continuance of our free institutions is in the proper moral and religious training of the children, that they may be prepared to discharge aright the duties of men and citizens.” – Zachary Taylor
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Tagged Children, Citizen, Continuance, Discharge, Duties, First Principles, Free Institutions, Hope, Moral, Religious, Training, Zachary Taylor
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In Memory of 9/11
We must never forget what extremists brought on this day We must always linger on the troubles that come humanity’s way We must also never forget that we are all the children of God And that God would have us … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, Ache, Acts, Afraid, America, Ashes, Beacon, Betteer, Blind, Brave, Brazen, Break, Breathe, Cherish, Children, City on the Hill, Come Together, Day, Dreams, Example, Extremists, Fight, Forget, Founders, Freedom, Future, God, God's Will, Hands, Heart, Help, Humanity, Kindness, Liberty, Love, Loving, Madmen, Memory, Nature, Need, New, New Life, Nurture, Patriot, Peace, Remember, Seek, Shine, Strifee, Thought For the Day, Tolerate, Trouble, Words
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The Path of Kindness
Based in part on Proverbs 3:3-4 The Path of Kindness by Michael Romani Stretched patience gives its opportunity As a choice of kindness felt in empathy God has given His shine into this darkness That would otherwise know not but … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Absolution, Actions, Acts, Angry, Answer, Attention, Blindness, Calm, Capability, Children, Christ, Command, Community, Compassion, Consideration, Darkness, Day of Judgment, Deeds, Do, Empathy, Enemy, Focus, Fruit of the Spirit, Gentle, Gift, God, God's Will, Grace, Gracious, Harshness, Head, Hear, Heart, Importance, Inner, Inscribe, Kindness, Light, Love, Mankind, Natural, Needs, Opportunity, Outer Beauty, Path, Patience, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Proverbs, Quality, Reflection, Relationship, Repentance, Responsibility, Retribution, Righteous, Said, Salvation, Sensitivity, Shadow, Shine, Sight, Sin, Society, Soft, Soul, Steeple, Tolerance, Treat, True, Truth, Understand, Ungrateful, Ways, Worship, Wrath
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First Principles: In A Representative Republic, the Education of Our Children Must Be of Utmost Importance
“In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!” – James Monroe
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Tagged Children, Education, First Principles, Importance, James Monroe, Representative, Republic
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Satan’s Kiss
Madness knows no mercy. Satan’s Kiss by Michael Romani Loneliness becomes her friend The only one on which to depend In a chosen profession of glory A mild confession is given in story To hold belief in once upon As … Continue reading
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Tagged Belief, Broken, Children, Confession, Courage, Depend, Dream, Fire, Friend, Funeral Pyre, Glory, Key, Kiss, Loneliness, Madness, Mercy, Mist, Noble, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Satan, Sorrow, Sting, Story, Strong, Thought
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First Principles: We Must Take Care To Elevate Our Children’s Minds, Courage and Souls Encouraging Them To Excel In Every Capacity, Faculty and Virtue
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambition, Capacity, Care, Children, Contempt, Couurage, Elevate, Exalt, Excel, Faculty, First Principles, Industry, Inhumanity, Injustice, John Adams, Meanness, Minds, Virtue
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American Dream
In this day and age, so many tear at the foundations of America. They do so with an almost willful ignorance of what came before and what’s happened since. There is an insistence that perfection be from the beginning when … Continue reading
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Tagged American, Children, Confuse, Critic, Crumble, Dream, Dystopia, Family, Foundation, Freedom, Gettysburg, God Given, Hues, Human Condition, Humble Beginning, Ignorance, Judge, Mankind, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Reparations, Revolution, Shoes, Shoulder, Slavery, Tear, Today, Understanding
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First Principles: Christianity Must Be the Basis of Government Intended To Secure the Rights and Privileges of A Free People
“In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. … No truth is more evident to my mind than that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Basis, Children, Christianity, First Principles, First Thing, Free Government, Free People, Government, Instruct, Noah Webster, Privileges, Rights, Secure, Truth
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What of the Children?
Sins of the fathers? Matter of karma or fate? A lost sense of ethical balance? Children come into this world as blessings and deal with the corruptive influences that are out of their control. Don’t we owe them so … Continue reading
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Tagged Bills, Bless, Body, Born, Children, Contribution, Corruption, Disease, Disruption, Ethical Balance, Fate, Father, Guide, Heart, Karma, Love, Mind, Pharmacology, Pills, Poem, Poetry, Profit, Sin, Sold, Soul, Spill, Spirit, Star, Toxic, World
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