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First Principles: A Nation, Despicable By Its Weakness, Forfeits Even the Privilege of Being Neutral
“The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.” – Alexander Hamilton (1787)
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In Remembrance of Memorial Day
“I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States.” -John Adams
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Tagged Aware, Blood, Cost, Declaration, Defend, In Remembrance of Memorial Day, John Adams, Maintain, Support, These States, Thought For the Day, Toil, Treasure
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Thought For the Day: I May Not Agree With What You Say, But To the Death I will Defend Your Right To Say It
“I may not agree with what you say, but to the death I will defend your right to say it.” -Voltaire (1694-1778)
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Kept In A Hillside Perspective
Kept In A Hillside Perspectiveby Michael DoyleI’ve heard a lot of jokesAbout being close to inbredIt’s the kind of a thingThat rolls around in my headOver and over againPlaying a memory’s allusionAgainst something, I can’t defendAs I have been searching … Continue reading
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Tagged Allowed, Allusion, Awkward, Believe, Born, Burn, City Folk, Come True, Comfortably Grown, Confusion, Cool, Country Folks, Defend, Discerned, Dreams, Driven, Every Inch, Forgotten, Go Through, Grief Lived, Head, Helps Keep Things In Perspective, Her time, Hillbillies, Hills, Hillside, Hope Given, Hurts, Incendiary, Inisde, Joke, Kept, Learn, Legendary, Lessons Learned, Life, Little Battles of Life, Lived, Lord Wills, Loud and Proud, Make It, Me, Memory, Momma, Mother's Knee, My Momma, Never Lived, Nobody, Only Listen, Other Names, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Powerfully, Pre-School, Presence of the Lord, Proud But Few, Quietly Fought In, Read, Reflective, Reminded, Rocky Road, Search, Shames, Sound, Stupid, There, Things Said, This Moment, Told, Unfortunate, Want To, West Virginia
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The Not So Cooked Goose of Dr. Seuss
The Not So Cooked Goose of Dr. Seussby Michael DoyleThis is not what it means to be wokeSomething inside must be truly brokeThese sinister snowflakes in reactivitySeek to search and destroy all creativityFor generations we have lived and learnedFrom lessons … Continue reading
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Tagged A Thing of Notoriety, All Creativity, Anxiety, Before Me, Belief, Brave and Free, Cooked Goose, Courage, Cringers, Dear Country, Defend, Different Voice, Discerned, Dr. Seuss, Far Out of Reach, For Myself, Generations, God, Incapable, Leaving Each To Their Own, Lessons Taught, Liberty, Live For, Lived and Learned, Lost Within, Loudly Assert, Make What's Right, My Death, My Freedom, My Last Breath, Need To Live, No More Freedom, No Sense, Not the Way, Poetry and Poems, Propriety, Reactivity, Real Dignity, Real Justice, Safe Zones, Search and Destroy, Sinister Snowflakes, Society, Something Inside, The Founders, They've Made Your Choice, Thought and Speech, True Justice, Truly Broke, Truth, Vacuum, What It Means To Be Woke
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Wounds Let In the Light
Wounds Let In the Lightby Michael DoyleThey say our wounds let in the lightI don’t know if it’s by experience or second lightBut something about this notion is wound tightAnd from what I have seen, perhaps they’re rightThe worst wound … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear, Believed, Better Selves, Born, Clear, Comfort, Dead, Deeply Understood, Defend, Enter, Experience, Fatality, Fate, Forced Wrong, Give Almost Anything, Guilt, Immortality, Innately Good, Innocent, Lane, Life, Light, Little Left, Moral Injury, Mortality, Name, No Going Back, Notion, Ourselves, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Right, River, Same, Sear, Second Light, Seen, Self-Confessed, Shame, Sin, Smoke Clears, Soul, Stood, To Return, War's End, Worst Wound, Wound Tight, Wounds
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Thought For the Day: We Are Obliged To Respect, Defend and Maintain the Common Bonds of Union and Fellowship That Exist Among All Members of the Human Race
“We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Tagged All Members, Common Bonds, Defend, Fellowship, Human Race, Maintain, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Oblige, Respect, Thought For the Day, Union, We
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First Principles: A Nation, Despicable By Its Weakness, Forfeits Even the Privilege of Being Neutral
“The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 11
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Tagged Adequate, Alexander Hamilton, Defend, Federalist Papers, First Principles, Forfeit, Nation, Neutral, Neutrality, Power, Privilege, Respect, Rights, Weak
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First Principles: Resistance To Tyranny Is the Christian and Social Duty of Each Individual
“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. … Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian, Defend, Dependence, Duty, First Principles, Gave, God, Heaven, Individual, John Hancock, Man, Proper Sense, Resistance, Right, Social, Steadfast, Take, Tyranny
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