Tag Archives: First Principles

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

Posted on May 4, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“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

Posted on May 3, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“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

Posted on May 2, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

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

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First Principles: To Model Our Political Systems Upon Speculations of Lasting Tranquility Would Be To Calculate On the Weaker Springs of Human Character

Posted on April 30, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“To model our political systems upon speculations of lasting tranquillity would be to calculate on the weaker springs of human character.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)

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First Principles: Nothing Is More Essential To the Establishment of Manners In A State Than That All Persons Employed In Places of Power and Trust Must Be Men of Unexceptional Characters

Posted on April 29, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.” – Samuel Adams (1775)

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First Principles: Hold Fast To the Bible As the Sheet-Anchor of Your Liberties; Write Its Precepts In Your Hearts, and Practice Them In Your Lives

Posted on April 28, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.” – Ulysses S. Grant

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First Principles: Theirs Are the Patriarchs, and From Them Is Traced the Human Ancestry of the Messiah, Who Is God Over All, Forever Praised. Amen

Posted on April 27, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.” – Romans 9:5

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First Principles: Whoever Commands the Sea, Commands the Trade; Whoever Commands the Trade of the World Commands the Riches of the World

Posted on April 25, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.” – Walter Raleigh Let’s build these ships through manpower or robotics armed with AI and … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Permanence, Perseverance and Persistence In Spite of All Obstacles, Discouragements, and Impossibilities.

Posted on April 23, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.” – Thomas Carlyle

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First Principles: The Wildlife and Its Habitat Cannot Speak, So We Must and We Will

Posted on April 22, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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