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First Principles: The Press Is Impotent When It Abandons Itself To Falsehood

Posted on August 10, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth.” – Thomas Jefferson (1805)

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First Principles: Let Us Resolve To Be Masters, Not the Victims, of Our History, Controlling Our Own Destiny Without Giving Way To Blind Suspicions and Emotions

Posted on August 9, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.” – John F. Kennedy

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First Principles: Collecting More Taxes Than Is Absolutely Necessary Is Legalized Robbery

Posted on August 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.” – Calvin Coolidge

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First Principles: It Is Hard To Fail, But It Is Worse Never To Have Tried To Succeed. In This Life, We Get Nothing Save By Effort

Posted on August 7, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life, we get nothing save by effort.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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First Principles: Those Who Deny Freedom To Others Deserve It Not For Themselves, and, Under A Just God, Cannot Long Retain It

Posted on August 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.” – Abraham Lincoln

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First Principles: Labor Disgraces No Man, But Occasionally Men Disgrace Labor

Posted on August 5, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.” – Ulysses S. Grant

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First Principles: A Sacred Respect For the Constitutional Law Is the Vital Principles, the Sustaining Energy of A Free Government

Posted on August 4, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.” – Alexander Hamilton (1794)

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First Principles: There is Nothing More Corrupting, Nothing More Destructive of the Noblest and Finest Feelings of Our Nature, Than the Exercise of Unlimited Power

Posted on August 3, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.” – William Henry Harrison

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First Principles: He That Would Make His Own Liberty Secure, Must Guard Even His Enemy From Oppression, For If He Violates, This Duty, He Establishes A Precedent

Posted on August 2, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” – Thomas Paine, Dissertation On First Principles of Government (1791)

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First Principles: To Prevent Crimes, Is the Noblest End and Aim of Criminal Jurisprudence. To Punish Them, Is One of the Means Necessary for the Accomplishment

Posted on August 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“To prevent crimes, is the noblest end and aim of criminal jurisprudence. To punish them, is one of the means necessary for the accomplishment of this noble end and aim.” – James Wilson (1790) Two sides of the same noble … Continue reading →

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