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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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Tagged Corrupting, Destructive, Exercise, Feelings, Fine, First Principles, Nature, Noble, Nothing, Unlimited Power, William Henry Harrison
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First Principles: It Is Necessary For Every American…To Endeavor To Stop the Dissemination of Principles, ..Destructive of the Cause For Which They Have Bled
“It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people … Continue reading
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Tagged Bled, Cause, Civil and Religious Rights, Destructive, Dissemination, Endeavor, Energy, Every American, First Principles, Form, Government, Mercy Warren, Necessary, Principles, Tyranny
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First Principles: It Is Necessary For Every American, With Becoming Energy To Endeavor To Stop the Dissemination of Principles Evidently Destructive of the Cause For Which They Have Bled
“It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled.” – Mercy Warren (1805)
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Tagged Bled, Cause, Destructive, Dissemination, Endeavor, Energy, Every American, First Principles, Mercy Otis Warren, Necessary, Principles, Stop
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First Principles: It Is Necessary For Every American, With Becoming Energy To Endeavor To Stop the Dissemination of Principles Evidently Destructive of the Cause For Which They Have Bled
“It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people … Continue reading
First Principles: It Is Necessary For Every American, With Becoming Energy To Endeavor To Stop the Dissemination of Principles Evidently Destructive of the Cause For Which They Have Bled
“It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled.” – Mercy Warren (1805)
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Tagged Bled, Cause, Destructive, Dissemination, Energy, Every Amercian, First Principles, Mercy Warren, Necessary, Principles
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First Principles: It Is Necessary For Every American…To Endeavor To Stop the Dissemination of Principles…Destructive of the Cause For Which They Have Bled
“It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people … Continue reading
On Habits of Soap, Water and Masks
My youngest princess is fond of teasing the truth that we are living history. What a memory this all will be one day won’t it? They’ll be able to say they lived through a global crisis and remember things … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcohol, Antibody, Block, Car, Common Sense, Crowns, Daughters, Destructive, Disabuse, Disrupt, Embrace, Epidemiology, Face, Fancy, Father, Global Crisis, Habit, Learn, Live, Living History, Manipulate, Mask, Me and You, Memory, New Norm, Notion, Opportunity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Protect, Protein, Safe and Sane, Scientists, Smile, Soap, Soap and Water, Strategy, Trials, Used, Viral, Virus, Wash Our Hands, Water
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Our Finest Hour
At this stage of American history, we advanced onto the world stage having no real choice but to fight a war on multiple fronts in World War II and rather self consciously becoming a, if not the, world leader in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930s, 1940, Accommodation, Admiral Nimitz, Admiral Yamamoto, Air Craft Carrier, All-American, Allied Commander, Allies, America, American History, American Pride, Appeasement, Atom Bomb, Back, Battle, Battle of Britain, Battle of Midway, Beast, Berlin, Blitzkrieg, Break, Brunt, Capacity, China, Christian Civilization, City, Conflagration, Consideration, Converge, Countries, D-Day, Dead, Death Camps, Decision, Decisive, Decisively, Defeaat, Demoralize, Destructive, Devour, Dictator, Die, Direction, Domination, Drums, Dwight Eisenhower, Dynamics, Emperor, Endure, Engage, Expansion, FDR, Finest, Finest Hour, Fire Side Chat, Fourth, Free World, Freedom, General MacArthur, Germany, Halt, Hard Fought, Harry S Truman, Heart, Hiroshima, History, Hitler, Horror, Hour, Impossible, Industrial Ability, Infamy, Institution, Internal, International, Internationalist, Isolationist, Italy, Japan, Japanese, Jewish, June, Knockout Blow, Know, Last, Lend Lease Act, Luftwaffe, Manhattan Project, Mantle of Leadership, Materials, Merge, Might, Nagasaki, Nation, Navy, Nazi, Neutrality, Non-Aggression Pact, Normandy, North Atlantic, Obligations, Occupy, Okinawa, Opinion Poll, Organic, Pacific, Pacific Fleet, Paris, Past, Pearl Harbor, Permanent Sense, Philippines, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precedent, Predictability, Prinicples, Priority, Productivity, Reality, Revelation, Royal Air Force, Ruins, Russians, Secret, Secure, Self Conscious, Shadow, Shoulders, Shudder, Siege, Skies, Smoulder, Soviet Union, Stalin, Standing, Standing Army, Strategic, Stubborn, Supplies, Surrender, Sustain, Symbolic, Territorial Aggression, Thug, Treaty of Versailles, Turning Point, Two Prong, Typhoon of Steel, Unstoppable, Vain, VE Day, Victory, War, Will, Win, Winston Churchill, World, World Affairs, World Leader, World War II, Wrong
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First Principles: Democracy Soon Degenerates Into the Depths of Such Anarchy That All Moral Virtue Is Extinguished
“Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchy, Bloody, Degenerate, Democracy, Destructive, First Principles, Government, John Adams, Liberty, Moral Virtue, Political Suicide, Property, Rights, Self Righteous
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