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First Principles: History By Apprising Citizens of the Past Will Enable Them To Judge of the Future
“History by apprising [citizens] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Ambition, Apprise, Assum, Citizens, Defeat, Design, Disguise, Experience, First Principles, Future, History, Judge, Naions, Other Times, Past, Thomas Jefferson, Views
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First Principles: Do You Not Know That In A Race All the Runners Run, But Only One Gets the Prize? Run In Such A Way As To Get the Prize
“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Corinthians 9:24-25, Compete, Crown, First Principles, Forever, Games, Know, Last, Prize, Race, Run, Runners, Strict Training, Way
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First Principles: It Has Been A Source of Great Pain To Me To Have Met With So Many Among My Opponents Who Had Not the Liberality To Distinguish Between Political and Social Opposition
“It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred … Continue reading
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Tagged Distinguish, First Principles, Great Pain, Hatred, Liberality, Met, Opponents, Person, Political, Political Opinion, Social Oppoition, Source, Thomas Jefferson, Transfer
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First Principles: The Natural Cure For An Ill-Administration, In A Popular or Representative Constitution, Is A Change of Men
“The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.” – Alexander Hamilton (1787)
First Principles: The Principle of Spending Money To Be Paid By Posterity, Under the Name of Funding, Is But Swindling Futurity On A Large Scale
“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)
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Tagged First Principles, Funding, Futurity, Large Scale, Paid, Posterity, Principle, Spending Money, Swindle, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: They Define A Republic To Be A Government of Laws, and Not of Men
“They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.” – John Adams (1775)
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First Principles: Naked I Came From My Mother’s Womb and Naked I will Depart. The Lord Gave and the Lord Has Taken Away; May the Name of the Lord Be Praised
“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will depart.[a]The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised.” – Job 1:21
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Tagged Came, Depart, First Principles, Gave, Job 1:21, Mother's Womb, Naked, Name, Praise, Taken Away, The Lord
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First Principles: Do What You Can, With What You Have, Where You Are
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
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First Principles: Here Comes the Orator! With His Flood of Words, and His Drop of Reason
“Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason.” – Benjamin Franklin (1735) Did anyone else find that State of the Union Address less than unifying?
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