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First Principles: America Will Never Be Destroyed From the Outside. If We Falter and Lose Our Freedoms, It Will Be Because We Destroyed Ourselves

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln

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First Principles: The Power To Tax Is the Power To Destroy

“The power to tax is the power to destroy.” – John Marshall

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Thought For the Day: Unlimited Tolerance Must Lead To the Disappearance of Tolerance

“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. … Continue reading →

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First Principles: There Is Nothing More Corrupting, Nothing More Destructive of the Noblest and Finest Feelings of our Nature, Than the Exercise of Unlimited Power

“There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.” – William Henry Harrison

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First Principles: America Will Never Be Destroyed From the Outside. If We Falter and Lose Our Freedoms, It Will Be Because We Destroyed Ourselves

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln (Look at the election results in NYC, Seattle, Portland, and elsewhere. We are voting in … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Let There Be No Change By Usurpation; For Though This, In One Instance, May Be the Instrument of the Good, It Is the Customary Weapon By Which Free Governments Are Destroyed

“If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Without Free Speech, There Is No Such Thing As Truth. The Moment You Silence Opposing Voices, You Destroy the Foundation of Democracy

“Without free speech, there is no such thing as truth. The moment you silence opposing voices, you destroy the foundation of democracy.” – Charlie Kirk While opposed to our Constitutional Republic being referred to as “democracy”, give a listen to … Continue reading →

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First Principles: When I Hear of the Destruction of A Species, I Feel Just As If All the Works of Some Great Writer Have Perished

“When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.” – Theodore Roosevelt, in a Letter to Frank Michler Chapman (February 16, 1899)

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First Steps Into the Shatter Zone

First Steps Into the Shatter Zoneby Michael DoyleSometimes, I allow myself an inward journeyAs I seek to know what the past means to meToday, nestled in my roadside booth I find myself eating tacos as I seek out the truthWhat … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Care of Human Life and Happiness, and Not Their Destruction, Is the First and Only Legitimate Object of Good Government

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson

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