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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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First Principles: Do Not Forget To Do Good and To Share With Others, For With Such Sacrifice God Is Pleased

Posted on May 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.” – Hebrews 13:16 (NIV)

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First Principles: Resistance To Tyranny Becomes the Christian and Social Duty of Each Individual

Posted on May 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” – … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Every Man…Who Loves Liberty Ought To Have It Ever Before His Eyes That He May Cherish In His Heart A Due Attachment to the Union of America

Posted on May 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“”Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and … Continue reading →

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First Principles: No Legislated Act, Therefore, Contrary to the Constitution, Can Be Valid

Posted on May 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the … Continue reading →

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First Principles: We Are, Heart and Soul, Friends To the Freedom of the Press. It Is However, the Prostituted Companion of Liberty

Posted on May 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press. It is however, the prostituted companion of liberty.” -Fisher Ames (1807)

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First Principles: Would It Not Be Better To Simplify the System of Taxation Rather Than To Spread It Over Such A Variety of Subjects and Pass Through So Many New Hands

Posted on April 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.” – Thomas Jefferson (1784)

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First Principles: When I Contemplate the Immense Advances In Science and Discoveries In the Arts Which Have Been Made With the Periods of My Life, I Look Forward With Confidence To Equal Advances

Posted on April 29, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Therefore Go and Make Disciples of All Nations, Baptizing Them In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and Teaching Them To Obey Everything I Have Commanded You

Posted on April 28, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in … Continue reading →

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