Tag Archives: Force

From the Silence Remembered

Posted on January 9, 2026 by alohapromisesforever

From the Silence Rememberedby Michael DoyleFrom the waiting silence comes the memoryOf a time when Iran was full of majesty.This storied land grasps for freedom,Not wishing to be a kingdom or a theocracy. This time whispers the quietly reverent,This time, … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: I Don’t Know Any Other Way To Live But To Wake Every Day Armed With My Convictions, Not Yielding Them To the Threat of Danger

Posted on July 14, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“I don’t know any other way to live but to wake up everyday armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.” – Wole Soyinka

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Thought For the Day: Secrecy Is the Keystone of All Tyranny. Not Force, But Secrecy…Censorship

Posted on July 7, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy…censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Censorship, Church, Forbidden, Force, Government, Holy, Keystone, Know, Motives, Oppression, Revolt In 2100 (1953), Robert A. Heinlein, Secrecy, Thought For the Day, Tyranny | Leave a comment

First Principles: Government Is Not Reason; It Is Not Eloquent; It Is Force. Like Fire, It Is A Dangerous Servant and A Fearful Master.

Posted on July 1, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Laws, To Be Just, Must Give A Reciprocation of Right; That Without This, They are Mere Arbitrary Rules of Conduct, Founded In Force, And Not In Conscience

Posted on January 31, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.” – Thomas Jefferson (1782)

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First Principle: Government Is Not Reason; It Is Not Eloquent; It Is Force. Like Fire, It Is A Dangerous Servant and A Fearful Master

Posted on January 18, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” – George Washington

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Thought For the Day: Authority That Does Not Exist For Liberty Is Not Authority But Force

Posted on January 10, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.” – Lord Acton

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First Principles: Virtue Or Morality Is A Necessary Spring of Popular Government

Posted on September 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.” – George Washington (1796)

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First Principles: We Lay It Down As Fundamental, That Laws, To be Just, Must Give A Reciprocation of Right; Without this, The Are Mere Arbitrary Rules of Conduct

Posted on June 13, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

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Facedown With Mediocrity

Posted on April 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Facedown With Mediocrityby Michael DoyleIn every town and in every cityWe find challenges met with mediocrityThese are the moments of losses takenAnd near certainty of a world wanting and mistakenFor some, this is hard to be faced head onWhile others … Continue reading →

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