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Thought For the Day: All Government – Indeed, Every Human Benefit and Enjoyment, Every Virtue and Every Prudent Act – Is Founded On Compromise and Barter

Posted on January 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter.” – Edmund Burke

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First Principles: It Cannot Be Emphasized Too Strongly…That This Great Nation Was Founded …By Christians…On the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Posted on December 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ!” – Patrick Henry

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First Principles: Laws, To Be Just, Must Give A Reciprocation of Right;…Without This, They Are Mere Arbitrary Rules of Conduct, Founded In Force

Posted on January 17, 2022 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 Principles: This I Hope Will Be the Age of Experiments In Government, and That Their Basis Will Be Founded In Principles of Honesty, Not of Mere Force

Posted on December 8, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.” – Thomas Jefferson (1796)

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First Principles: Government Is Founded Not On Force…(I)t Springs From the Necessities of Our Nature, and Has An Everlasting Foundation In the Unchangeable Will of God

Posted on August 9, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution of 1688; nor on property, as was the assertion of Harrington. It springs from the … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Propriety of A Law, In A Constitutional Light, Must Always Be Determined By the Nature of the Power Upon Which It Is Founded

Posted on July 27, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)

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Thought For the Day: America, My Friends, Is the Only Country In the World Actually Founded On Liberty…People Went To America To Be Free

Posted on June 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty — the only one. People went to America to be free.” – Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)

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First Principles: I Am A Friend To Righteous Government, To A Government Founded Upon the Principles of Reason and Justice. But I Glory In Publicly Avowing My Eternal Enmity To Tyranny

Posted on April 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice. But I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.” – John Hancock

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First Principles: Natural Liberty Is A Gift of the Beneficent Creator To the Whole Human Race and…Civil Liberty Is Founded In That; and Cannot Be Wrested From Any People, Without the Most Manifest Violation of Justice

Posted on February 27, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“…(N)atural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race, and that civil liberty is founded in that; and cannot be wrested from any people, without the most manifest violation of justice.” – Alexander Hamilton, in … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Deterioration of Every Government Begins With the Decay of the Principles On Which It was Founded

Posted on September 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.” – Baron de Montesquieu

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