Tag Archives: First Principles

First Principles: If I Believe In God and Life After Death and You Do Not, and If There Is No God, We Both Lose When We Die. However, If There Is A God, You Still Lose and I Gain Everything

Posted on May 16, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.” – Blaise … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Between A Balanced Republic and A Democracy, the Difference Is Like That Between Order and Chaos

Posted on May 15, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.“ – John Marshall

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First Principles: Where An Excess of Power Prevails, Property of No Sort Is Duly Respect. No Man Is Safe In His Opinion, …Person,…Faculties… Or His Possessions

Posted on May 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Before Any Man Can Be Considered As A Member of Civil Society, He Must Be Considered As A Subject of the Governor of the Universe

Posted on May 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage…Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.” – James … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Start Children Off On the Way They Should Go, and Even When They Are Old They Will Not Turn From It

Posted on May 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” – Proverbs 22:6

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First Principles: Constitutions of Civil Government Are Not Framed Upon A Calculation of Existing Exigencies, But Upon A Combination of These With the Probable Exigencies of Ages

Posted on May 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs.” – Alexander Hamilton … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Love of A Mother Is the Veil of A Softer Light Between the Heart and the Heavenly Father

Posted on May 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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First Principles: It Should Be Your Care, Therefore, And Mine, To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exalt Their Courage. If We Suffer Their Minds To Grovel and Creep In Infancy, They Will Grovel All Their Lives

Posted on May 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage… If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.” – John Adams (1756)

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First Principles: Nothing Is So Contagious As Opinion, Especially On Questions Which, Susceptible of Very Different Glasses, Beget In the Mind A Distrust of Itself

Posted on May 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.” – James Madison (1790)

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First Principles: Give Me the Liberty To Know, To Utter, and To Argue Freely According To Conscience Above All Liberties

Posted on May 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Give me the liberty to know to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience above all liberties.” – John Milton

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