Tag Archives: Entrust

Thought For the Day: It Is A Habit of Mankind To Entrust To Careless Hope What They Long For, and To Use Sovereign Reason To Thrust Aside What They Do Not Fancy

Posted on January 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“For it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not fancy.” – Thucydides (c.455-c.400 BC)

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First Principles: The Republican Principle Demands That the Deliberate Sense of the Community Should Govern the Conduct of Those To Whom They Entrust the Management of Their Affairs

Posted on January 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Entrust Unlimited Authority To One Man, To Several, To All, You Will Find That It Is Equally Evil

Posted on December 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Entrust [unlimited authority] to one man, to several, to all, you will still find that it is equally an evil.” – David Constant (1815)

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First Principles: Even Under the Best Forms of Government, Those Entrusted With Power Have Perverted It To Tyranny

Posted on August 28, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Experience hath shewn, That Even Under the Best Forms of Government, Those Entrusted With Power Have, In Time, and By Slow Operations, Perverted It To Tyranny.” – Thomas Jefferson Still think Obama understood the Constitutional law he lectured on? … Continue reading →

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Day From Night

Posted on July 29, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

After God said let there be light, He divided day from night… Day From Night by Michael Romani Earth in balance requires adjustment With multiple areas of entrustment But trusting in whom? Man or God? And isn’t it a bit … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Entrust

Thought For the Day: It Is A Habit of Mankind To Entrust To Careless Hope What They Long For, and To Use Sovereign Reason To Thrust Aside What They Do Not Fancy

First Principles: The Republican Principle Demands That the Deliberate Sense of the Community Should Govern the Conduct of Those To Whom They Entrust the Management of Their Affairs

First Principles: Entrust Unlimited Authority To One Man, To Several, To All, You Will Find That It Is Equally Evil

First Principles: Even Under the Best Forms of Government, Those Entrusted With Power Have Perverted It To Tyranny

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