Tag Archives: First Principles

First Principles: A Good Moral Character Is the First Essential of All Persons

Posted on November 18, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“A good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life.” – George Washington (1790)

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First Principles: National Defense Is A Cardinal Duty of Every Statesman

Posted on November 17, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.” – John Adams (1815)

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First Principles: A Judiciary Should Be Independent of the Executive Alone, But, Not Independent of the Nation

Posted on November 16, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.” -Thomas Jefferson (1820)

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First Principles: Honest Persons Feel No Pleasure Over Controlling Fellow Citizens

Posted on November 14, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.” – Thomas Jefferson (1813)

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First Principles: Laws That Forbid Carrying Arms Only Disarm Those Neither Inclined Nor Determined to Commit Crimes

Posted on November 13, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Peace Is Better Than War; War Is Better than Tribute

Posted on November 12, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.” – James Madison (1816)

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First Principles: A Debt of Gratitude Is Owed To All Veterans and Their Families, Especially Wives

Posted on November 11, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, ‘What should be the reward of such sacrifices?’ … If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Love of Truth and Veneration of Virtue Are the Sparks of Discernment of Right and Wrong and True and False

Posted on November 10, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the ‘latent spark’… If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Let Us Rely On the Goodness of Our Causes and the Aid of God

Posted on November 9, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions.” – George Washington, in his General Orders (1776) … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Whole Art of Government Consists of Being Honest and Doing Your Duty

Posted on November 8, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government … Continue reading →

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