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First Principles: It Is With Your Heart That You Believe and Are Justified, and It Is With Your Mouth That You Profess Your Faith and Are Saved

“For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.” – Romans 10: 10

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First Principles: If Men Are So Wicked With Religion, What Would They Be If Without It?

“If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?” – Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: The Constitution…Is A Mere Thing of Wax In the Hands of the Judiciary Which They May Twist and Shape Into Any Form They Please

“The Constitution … is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they please.” – Thomas Jefferson (1819)

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First Principles: The More People Who Own Little Businesses of Their Own, the Safer Our Country Will Be, and the Better Off Its Cities and Towns

“The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best … Continue reading

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First Principles: We the People, Elect Leaders Not To Rule But To Serve

“We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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First Principles: Give Me the Liberty To Know, To Utter, and To Argue Freely According To Conscience, Above All Liberties

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” – John Milton

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First Principles: Christianity, By Introducing Into Europe the Truest Principles of Humanity, Universal Benevolence, and Brotherly Love, Had Happily Abolished Civil Slavery

“Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us who profess the same religion practice its precepts… by agreeing to this duty.” – Richard Henry Lee

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First Principles: It Does not, Therefore, Depend on Human Desire Or Effort, But On God’s Mercy

“It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.” – Romans 9:16 NIV

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First Principles: We Must Go Home To Be Happy, and Our Home Is Not In This World. Here We Have Nothing To Do But Our Duty

“We must go home to be happy, and our home is not in this world. Here we have nothing to do but our duty.” – John Jay

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First Principles: Walking Is the Best Possible Exercise. Habituate Yourself To Walk Very Far

“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.” – Thomas Jefferson

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