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First Principles: As Parents, We Can Have No Joy, Knowing That This Government Is Not Sufficiently Lasting To Ensure Any Thing Which We May Bequeath To Posterity

Posted on August 26, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into … Continue reading →

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

Posted on August 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.” – John Adams (1808)

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First Principles: Dependence Begets Subservience and Venality, Suffocates the Germ of Virtue, and Prepare Fit Tools For the Designs of Ambition

Posted on August 24, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” –Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, Query 19, 1781

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First Principles: The Instability of Our Laws Is Really An Immense Evil

Posted on August 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always be a twelve-month between the ingross-ing a bill & passing it: that it should then … Continue reading →

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First Principles: We Have Therefore To Resolve To Conquer Or Die

Posted on August 22, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our own Country’s Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.” – George Washington

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First Principles: To Judge From the History of Mankind, We Shall Be Compelled To Conclude That the Fiery and Destructive Passions of War Reign In the Human Breast

Posted on August 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude that the fiery and destructive passions of war reign in the human breast with much more powerful sway than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace.”– Alexander … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Constitution Is Not the Act of A Government, But of A People Constituting A Government, and A Government Without A Constitution Is A Power Without Right

Posted on August 20, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.” – Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791

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First Principles: To Preserve Liberty, It Is Essential That the Whole Body of the People Always Possess Arms, and Be Taught Alike, Especially When Young, How To Use Them

Posted on August 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.” – Federal Farmer (1787)

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First Principles: An Unlimited Power to Tax Involves, Necessarily, A Power to Destroy; Because There Is A Limit Beyond Which No Institution and No Property Can Bear Taxation

Posted on August 18, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.” – John Marshall, McCullough v. Maryland, 1819

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First Principles: It Is A Principle Incorporated Into the Settled Policy of America, That As Peace Is Better Than War, War Is Better Than Tribute

Posted on August 17, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.” – James Madison (1816)

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