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First Principles: Honesty Is the First Chapter In the Book of Wisdom

Posted on July 6, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: Whoever Would Overthrow A Nation’s Liberty Must Begin By Subduing Free Speech

Posted on July 5, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” – Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: Happy Fourth of July!

Posted on July 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson, in The Declaration of … Continue reading →

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First Principles: It Isn’t How You Die. It’s What You Live For

Posted on July 3, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“It isn’t how you die. It’s what you live for.” – Daniel Boone

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First Principles: Where There Is No Religion, Government Becomes A Hellish Anarchy Until Religion Returns

Posted on July 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.” – Daniel Morgan

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First Principles: National and Individual Happiness Comes From Love of Liberty; Respect For Laws; Habits of Industry; and Practice of Moral and Religious Obligations

Posted on July 1, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Your love of liberty — your respect for the laws — your habits of industry — and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.” – George Washington (1789)

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First Principles: Nothing Impels Regard of Constituents As the Certainty of Participating In Their Burdens

Posted on June 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interests of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens.” – George Mason … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The American Revolution Bonded Principles of Civil Government With Principles of Christianity

Posted on June 29, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.” – John Adams

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First Principles: Power In Our Republic Is To Be Bound By the Chains of the Constitution

Posted on June 28, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1798)

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First Principles: Public Fund Expenditures Must Be Fully Accounted For

Posted on June 27, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.” – Thomas Jefferson (1808)

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