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First Principles: Enlightened Statesmen Will Not Always Be At the Helm

Posted on December 9, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” – James Madison (1787)

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First Principles: The Present Constitution Is the Standard To Which We Are To Cling…Rejecting All Changes But Through the Channel Itself Provides For Amendments

Posted on December 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes — rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments.” – Alexander Hamilton (1802)

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First Principles: If There Must Be Trouble, Let It Be In My Day, That My Child May Have Peace

Posted on December 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” – Thomas Paine

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First Principles: To Be Prepared For War Is One of the Most Effectual Means of Preserving Peace

Posted on December 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” – George Washington

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First Principles: Educate and Inform the Whole Mass of the People. Enable Them To See That It Is Their Interest To Preserve Peace and Order and They Will Preserve Them

Posted on December 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.” -Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: The Common and Continual Mischiefs of the Spirit of Party Are Sufficient To Make It the Interest and Duty of A Wise People To Discourage and Restrain It

Posted on December 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.” – George Washington

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First Principles: A Wise and Frugal Government… Shall Restrain Men From Injuring One Another (and) Shall Leave Them Otherwise Leave Them Otherwise Free To Regulate Their Own Pursuits of Industry and Improvement

Posted on December 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“A wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has … Continue reading →

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First Principles: An Investment In Knowledge Always Pays the Best Interest

Posted on December 3, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: It Does Not Take A Majority To Prevail… But Rather An Irate, Tireless Minority, Keen On Setting Brush Fires of Freedom In the Minds of Men

Posted on December 2, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men.” – Samuel Adams

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First Principles: We Should Be Unfaithful To Ourselves If We Should Ever Lose Sight of the Danger To Our Liberties If Anything Partial…Should Infect the Purity of Our Free…and Independent Elections

Posted on December 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” – John Adams (1797)

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