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Thought For the Day: We Need Men With Moral Courage To Speak and Write Their Real Thoughts, and To Stand By Their Convictions, Even To the Very Death
“We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
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Tagged Conviction, Death, Mankind, Moral Courage, Real Thoughts, Robert Green Ingersoll, Speak, Thought For the Day, Write
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First Principles: Honest Conviction Is My Courage; the Constitution Is My Guide
“Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.” – Andrew Johnson Interestingly, among popular quotes, I believe Andrew Johnson is among the last presidents to rightfully assert that our nation is a REPUBLIC, not a democracy. I detest … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Johnson, Conviction, Courage, First Principles, Guidance, Honesty, The Constitution
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The Role of A Father
The Role of A Fatherby Michael DoyleChildren walk this world in danger,Sometimes from the familiar stranger.The biggest danger is to fail to defendFrom the evils that pretend to be a friend.The Bible shows us in its illustration,How a father should … Continue reading
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Tagged Adoration, Adult, Bible, Children, Christianity, Conviction, Danger, Daughters, Decent Man, Defend, Evil, Faith, Familiar Stranger, Father, Friend, God, Good, Hope, Illustration, Jesus, Optimism, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Role, The Bible, Work
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Thought For the Day: The Greatest Happiness of Life Is the Conviction That We Are Loved; Loved For Ourselves, Or Rather Loved In Spite of Ourselves
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo
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Tagged Conviction, Happiness, Life, Love, Ourself, Thought For the Day, Victor Hugo
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First Principles: No Longer A Government By Free Opinion… and the Vote of the Majority, But A Government By the Opinion and Duress of A Small Group of Dominant Men
“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are … Continue reading
First Principles: I Tremble For My Country When I Reflect That God Is Just: That His Justice Cannot Sleep Forever
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Conviction, Firm Basis, First Princples, Forever, Gift of God, God, Just, Justice, Liberties, My Country, Nation, Secure, Sleep, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble, Violated, Wrath
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Thought For the Day: The Greatest Happiness of Life Is the Conviction That We Are Loved – Loved For Ourselves, Or Rather, Loved In Spite of Ourselves
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo, novelist and dramatist (26 Feb 1802-1885)
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Tagged Conviction, Great, Happiness, Life, Love, Ourselves, Spite, Thought For the Day, Victor Hugo
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Courage To Speak Honestly
Courage To Speak Honestlyby Michael DoyleLost in life’s waves as they come and goWhether trough or crest there is much to knowWe must never be afraid to speak honestlyRailing against injustice and acting efficientlyAs much as we can to rid … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Afraid, Belong, Benevolence, Blindness, Choice, Confidence, Confound, Conviction, Courage, Crest, Efficient, Evidence, Family, Giving, Honestly, Injustice, Kindness, Lies and Greed, Living, Love, Poetry and Poems, Profound, Rail, Recall, Relevance, Rid, Speak, Strong, Trough, Unbreakable, Unspeakable, Voice, Wave, World
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First Principles: God Who Gave Us Life Gave Us Liberty. And Can the Liberties of A Nation Be Thought Secure When We Have Removed Their Only Firm Basis…?
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Conviction, Country, Firm Basis, First Principles, Forever, Gift of God, God, Justice, Liberty, Life, Minds, Nation, Remove, Secure, Sleep, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble, Violate, Wrath
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Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Age
Revisiting Truth In the Post-Modernist Ageby Michael DoyleIt can be said with conviction of feelingThat the ways of God are revealingHere in this mid-DecemberIt seems timely to rememberAll of God’s loving tracesIn all the history of a life’s embracesAre like … Continue reading
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Tagged Atone, Balance, Brain, Broken, Chaos, Clarity, Confusion, Contrition, Conviction, Cost, Destruction, Dysfunction, Faithless, Feeling, Grace, Grace and Truth, Heartless, Heed, History, Human Race, Humanity, Ideology, Illusion, Imposition, Incarnation, Jordan, Law andTruth, Lean-In, Loving Traces, Meaning, Memorial, Mercy, Mid-December, Neighborhood, Nihilism, Optimism, Poetry and Poems, Poison, Post-Modernist Age, Preacher, Question, Reason, Rebellion, Relativism, Remember, Revealing, Revisit, Righteous Path, Seduce, Shadow, Stones, Struggle, Teach, Teacher, The Law, The lost, the Word, Truth, Ways of God
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