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First Principles: Never Confuse Motion With Action

Posted on January 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Never confuse motion with action.” – Benjamin Franklin

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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 January 4, 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: Remember Not Only To Say the Right Thing In the Right Place, But Far More Difficult Still, To Leave Unsaid the Wrong Thing At the Tempting Moment

Posted on January 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”– Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: Without Continual Growth and Progress, Such Words As Improvement, Achievement and Success Have No Meaning

Posted on January 2, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” – Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: Be At War With Your Vices, At Peace With Your Neighbors and Let Every New Year Find You A Better Man

Posted on January 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: Write It On Your Heart That Every Day Is the Best Day In the Year

Posted on December 31, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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First Principles: We Should Never Despair, Our Situation Before Has Been Unpromising and Has Changed For the Better, So I trust, It Will Again

Posted on December 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Where the Press Is Free and Every Man Able To Read, All Is Safe

Posted on December 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.” – Thomas Jefferson, to Charles Yancey (1816)

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First Principles: Government Is Instituted For the Common Good; For the Protections, Safety, Prosperity and Happiness of the People; and Not for Profit, Honor or Private Interest of Any One Man, Family or Class of Men

Posted on December 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Principle of Spending Money To Be Paid By Posterity, Under the Name of Funding, Is But Swindling Futurity On A Large Scale

Posted on December 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)

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