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First Principles: I Wish To Be Useful, and Every Kind of Service Necessary For the Public Good, Become Honorable By Being Necessary

Posted on February 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, become honorable by being necessary.” – Nathan Hale, 1776

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First Principles: If Virtue and Knowledge Are Diffused Among the People, The Will Never Be Enslaved. This Will Be Their Great Security

Posted on February 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“If Virtue & Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslav’d. This will be their great Security.” – Samuel Adams (1779)

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First Principles: The Essence of Government Is Power, Lodged As It Must In Human Hands, Will Ever Be Liable To Abuse

Posted on February 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” – James Madison (1829)

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First Principles: No Nation Is Permitted To Live In Ignorance With Impunity

Posted on February 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity” – Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God, Eternal Hostility Against Every Form of Tyranny Over the Mind of Man

Posted on February 7, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” – Thomas Jefferson (1800)

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First Principles: Do You Not Know That Your Bodies Are Temples of the Holy Spirit, Who Is In You…?

Posted on February 6, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.” … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The More Permanent and Genuine Happiness Is To Be Found In the Sequestered Walks of Connubial Life Than In the Giddy Rounds of Promiscuous Pleasure

Posted on February 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“More permanent and genuine happiness is to be found in the sequestered walks of connubial life than in the giddy rounds of promiscuous pleasure.” – George Washington, letter to the Marquis de la Rourie, 1786

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First Principles: Liberty, the Greatest of All Earthly Blessings – Give Us That Precious Jewel, and You May Take Every Things Else!

Posted on February 4, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings — give us that precious jewel, and you may take every things else!” – Patrick Henry (1788)

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First Principles: Those Who Expect To Reap the Blessings of Freedom, Must, Like Men, Undergo the Fatigues of Supporting It

Posted on February 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine (1777)

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First Principles: To Render Us Again One People Acting As One Nation Should Be the Object of Every Man Really A Patriot

Posted on February 2, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“To render us again one people acting as one nation should be the object of every man really a patriot.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)

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