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First Principles: Freedom Is the Open Window Through Which Pours the Sunlight of the Human Spirit and Human Dignity
“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” – Herbert Hoover
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Tagged Dignity, First Principles, Freedom, Herbert Hoover, Human, Open Window, Pour, Spirit, Sunlight
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First Principles: The Weak Cannot Be Built Up By Pulling Down the Strong
“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.” – Calvin Coolidge
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Tagged Build Up, Calvin Coolidge, Expect, First Principles, Pull Down, Strong, Weak
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First Principles: The Fundamental Trouble With the People of the United States Is That We Have Gotten Too Far Away From God
“I have been thinking a lot about these things as I have come to the realization of the tremendous responsibilities which rest upon me. It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is … Continue reading
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Tagged Age, Conviction, Duty, First Principles, God, Humanity, Imperative, Realize, Responsibility, The People, Think, Troulbe, United States, Warren G Harding
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First Principles: A Nation Which Does Not Remember What It Was Yesterday, Does Not Know What It Is Today, Nor What It Is Trying To Do
“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came … Continue reading
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Tagged Been About, Came From, Do, First Principles, Futile, Know, Nation, Remember, Today, Try, Woodrow Wilson, Yesterday
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First Principles: Constitutions Act As Restraint On the Hasty Action of the Majority
“Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.” – William Howard Taft … Continue reading
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Tagged Check, Constitution, First Principles, Hasty Action, Majority, Minority, Respect, Restraint, Rights, Self Imposed, Sober Action, Whole People, William Howard Taft
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First Principles: An Immigrant Coming In Good Faith To Become An Assimilated American Should Be Treated Equally With All Others
“In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an … Continue reading
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Tagged American, Assimilate, Become, Birthplace, Creed, Discriminate, Equal, Fact, First Principles, Good Faith, Immigrant, Nothing, Origin, Outrage, Predicate, Theodore Roosevelt, Treated
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First Principles: War Should Never Be Entered Into Until Every Effort At Peace Has Failed
“War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.” – William McKinley
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Tagged Agency, Enter, Fail, First Principles, Never, Peace, War, William McKinley
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First Principles: Officeholders Are the Agents of the People, Not Their Masters
“Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, … Continue reading
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Tagged Agents, Avoid, Discharge, First Principles, Government, Grover Cleveland, Labor, Master, Obtrusive, Officeholder, Official Duty, Partisanship, Political Action, Public Officials, The People, Time
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First Principles: We Cannot Make Financial Matters Right By Taking From One What He Has Honestly Acquired To Give to Another Who Has Not Earned
“The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous…. No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a … Continue reading
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Tagged Acquire, Benjamin Harrison, Bestow, Class, Denounce, Despise, First Principles, Has, Honest, Illogical, Indiscriminate, Is, Man, Matters, Mischief, Nother, Poor, Rich, Right, Settle, Take, Unearned
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First Principles: A Supreme Being Rules Mankind’s Affairs Whose Goodness and Mercy Follow the American People
“I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek … Continue reading
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Tagged Affairs, Aid, American, First Principles, Goodness, Grover Cleveland, He, Humble, Mankind, Mercy, Reverent, Rule, Seek, Supreme Being, Turn
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