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First Principles: We Must All Hang Together, Or Assuredly We Shall All Hang Separately

Posted on August 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” – Benjamin Franklin (1776)

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First Principles: Let Love and Faithfulness Never Leave You; Bind Them Around Your Neck, Write Them On the Tablet of Your Heart

Posted on August 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart”– Proverbs 3:3-6

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First Principles: A Fondness For Power Is Implanted, In Most Men, and It is Natural To Abuse It, When Acquired

Posted on August 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired.” – Alexander Hamilton (1775)

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First Principles: The Spirit of Encroachment Tends To Consolidate the Powers of All the Departments In One, and Thus To Create Whatever the Form of Government, A Real Despotism

Posted on August 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“”The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism.” – George Washington

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First Principles: Be A Free Thinker and Don’t Accept Everything You Hear As Truth. Be Critical and Evaluate What You Believe In

Posted on August 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.” – Aristotle

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First Principles: Laws Are Made For Men of Ordinary Understanding and Should, Therefore, Be Construed By the Ordinary Rules of Common Sense

Posted on July 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Greater Part of Our Misery Or Unhappiness Is Determined Not By Our Circumstance But By Our Disposition

Posted on July 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.” – Martha … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Public Cannot Be Too Curious Concerning the Characters of Public Men

Posted on July 29, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.” -Samuel Adams (1775)

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First Principles: Be Joyful In Hope, Patient In Affliction, Faithful In Prayer

Posted on July 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” – Romans 12:12

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First Principles: Courage Is Not Having the Strength To Go On; It’s the Going On When You Don’t Have the Strength

Posted on July 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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