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First Principles: There Is But One Straight Course, and That Is To Seek Truth and Pursue It Steadily

Posted on June 9, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” – George Washington (1795)

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First Principles: A Good Moral Character Is the First Essential In A Person

Posted on June 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“A good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should … Continue reading →

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First Principles: I Often Note With Equal Pleasure That God Gave This One Connected Country To One United People

Posted on June 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I often note with equal pleasure that God gave this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in manners … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Falsehood of the Tongue Leads To That of the Heart, and In Time Depraves All Its Good Disposition

Posted on June 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Greatest Good We Can Do Our Country Is To Heal Its Party Divisions and Make Them One People

Posted on June 2, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)

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First Principles: Slavery Is Such An Atrocious Debasement of Human Nature, That Its Very Extirpation, If Not Performed With Solicitous Care, May Sometimes Open A Source of Serious Evils

Posted on June 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils.” – Benjamin Franklin (1789)

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First Principles: Our Obligations To Our Country Never Cease But With Our Lives

Posted on May 31, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.” – John Adams In Remembrance of those who gave their lives so that we might live free. Here is hoping that you all are having a blessed Memorial Day

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First Principles: It Does Me No Injury For My Neighbor To Say There Are Twenty Gods, Or No God. It Neither Picks My Pocket Nor Breaks My Leg.

Posted on May 30, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” – Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: All Men Having Power Ought To Be Distrusted

Posted on May 29, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“All men having power ought to be distrusted…” – James Madison (1787)

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First Principles: A Bill of Rights Is What the People Are Entitled To Against Every Government On Earth, General or Particular, and What No Just Government Should Refuse

Posted on May 28, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“[A] bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse.” – Thomas Jefferson

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