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First Principles: Republics Are Created By the Virtue, Public Spirit and Intelligence of the Citizens
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, … Continue reading
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Tagged Banish, Betray, Citizens, Create, Dare, Fall, First Principles, Flatter, Honest, Intelligence, Joseph Story, Profligate, Public Councils, Public Spirit, Republic, Reward, The People, Virtue, Wise
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First Principles: History and Experience Prove That Foreign Influence Is One of the Most Baneful Foes of Republican Government
“Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful … Continue reading
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Tagged Awake, Citizens, Experience, First Principles, Foe, Foreign Influence, Free People, George Washington, History, Republican Government, Wiles
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Article 19 (The Burden of Secularism)
I have been reading through a series of works by Yuval Noah Harai that seems topical and a historian’s blend of philosophy and history projecting into humanity’s future. It’s been challenging and is spawning a few poems that are often … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Article 19, Ashes, Bad Impression, Billions, Blindspot, Capable, Catechism, Citizens, Compassion, Constraint, Creed, Dictatorship of the Majority, Dignity, Dissent, Dogma, Drag, Earth, Echo, Elite, Enslave, Equality, Ethics, Extermination, Failure, Fragments of Faith, Fraud, Free Thought, Freedom, Future, Global, God's Law, Godless, Gulag, Hierarchy, History, Hypocrisy, Ideals, Ignorance, Industrialiization, Legacy, Liberty, Lies, Marxism, Masses, Mercy, Misery, Modernization, Moral Compass, Oppression, Optimism, Pessimism, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Progressive, Reality, Responsibility, Seculariism, Self Expression, Self Righteous, Shadow, Slogan, Society, The Fall, Tolerance, Truth, Truth Seeking, Vanity, Youth, Yuval N Harai
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First Principles: This Republic Would Be Unfaithful To Itself Were We To Allow Partiality To Infect Our Elections
“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” – John Adams (1797) That’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Citizens, Danger, Extraneous, First Principles, Independent Election, Infect, John Adams, Liberty, Partial, Pure, Unfaithful
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Ghost Towns of Russia
600 million miles of history, quite a lot of it tragically beautiful: Ghost Towns of Russia by Michael Romani The provocative label of ghost town Once chased around Tells the story of another dead town Across 600 million Russian miles … Continue reading
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Tagged Artic, Audible Silence, Citizens, Collapse, Ghost Town, Gone, History, Horizon, Memories, Mercy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Polar Nights, Question, Reason, Red Army, Russia, Soviet Union, Strategy
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First Principles: The Private Character Serves to Instruct On Public Persons
“The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.” – Samuel Adams (1775)
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Tagged Character, Citizens, First Principles, Leaders, manners, Private, Public, Public Trust, Samuel Adams, Vigilience
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Thought for the Day: Prosperity and Human Fulfillment Are Created From the Bottom Up
“We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down.” – Ronald Reagan
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Tagged Bottom Up, Citizens, Free Market, Fulfillment, Government Down, Growth, Prosperity, Ronald Reagan, Society, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Honest Persons Find No Pleasure In Coercive Power
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.” — Thomas Jefferson (1813)
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Tagged Citizens, Coercive Power, First Principles, Governance, Government, Honest People, Integrity, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Don’t Give Up Essential Liberty For Temporary Safety
“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” — Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1795
First Principles: Freedom Does Not Come For Free
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” — Thomas Paine (1777) As Veteran’s Day approaches in this season of thankfulness and blessings, I think on the above… a lot. … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Citizens, Dedication, Earn, Freedom, Patriotism, Service, Thomas Paine
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