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First Principles: Where the Press Is Free and Every Man Able To Read, All Is Safe
“Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.” – Thomas Jefferson, to Charles Yancey (1816)
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Tagged Able, All, Every Man, First Principles, Free, Press, Read, Safe, Thomas Jefferson
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Beauty’s Brutality
Beauty’s Brutalityby Michael DoyleIn the deeps of Finland’s heartThe land lies in its darknessBathed in the Northern LightFrom where whispers of hope startAgainst the chilling harshnessBelow winter’s frosted nightSummer has been quick and fleetingTo thrive here takes endurance and courageWorn … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Ancient, Aurora Borealis, Beauty, Bleak Midwnter, Borne, Breeze, Brutality, Change, Chill, Comfort, Constant, Courage, Darkness, Deeps, Discourage, Down Under, Dreams, Endurance, Fatal, Finland, Fleeting, Fools, Forest, Free, Frost, Frozen In Time, Frozen Mouth, Gifts, Golden Eagle, Greeting, Grit, Harshness, Hope, Impatience, Infinity, Jeweled Crown, Land, Lapland, Legends, Life, Magical, Mesmerized, Midnight Sun, Moment To Spare, Myth, Myth of Fire Foxes, Never Know, Northern Light, Owl, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Reindeer, Rule, Santa, Serenity, Shine, Stand To Know, Star-Filled Sky, Stillness, Struggle, Summer, Sunrise, Surprise, Survive, The Sun, Thrive, Tough Lessons, Trees, Warmth, Weeks On End, Weight In Gold, Whisper, Winter, Winter Snow, Wisdom
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First Principles: We Should Be Unfaithful To Ourselves If We Should Ever Lose Sight of the Danger To Our Liberties If Anything Partial…Should Infect the Purity of Our Free…and Independent Elections
“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” – John Adams (1797)
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Tagged Danger, Elections, Extraneous, Fair, First Principles, Free, Independent, Infect, John Adams, Liberties, Lose Sight, Partial, Purity, Selves, Unfaithful, Virtuous
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Thought For the Day: If Liberty Is Worth Keeping and Free Representative Government Worth Saving, We Must Stand For All American Fundamentals – Not Some, But All
“If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals — not some, but all. All are woven into the great fabric of our national well-being. We cannot hold fast to some … Continue reading
First Principles: We Fight Not To Enslave, But To Set A Country Free and To Make Room Upon the Earth For Honest Men To Live In
“We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.” – Thomas Paine (1777)
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Tagged Country, Earth, Fight, First Principles, Free, Honest Men, Live, Make Room, Not To Enslave, Thomas Paine, We
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First Principles: We Should Be Unfaithful To Ourselves If We Should Ever Lose Sight of the Danger To Our Liberties If Anything Partial…Infect the Purity of Our Free…Elections
“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” – John Adams (1797)
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Tagged Danger, Elections, Extraneous, Fair, First Principles, Free, Independent, Infect, John Adams, Liberties, Lose Sight, Ourselves, Partial, Purity, Unfaithful, Virtuous, We
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Thought For the Day: Make Mankind Wise and By That Very Operation You Make Them Free
“Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.” – William Godwin (1756-1836)
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Tagged Artillery, Civil Liberty, Consequence, Free, Mankind, Operation, Opinion, Stand, Thought For the Day, Usurped Power, William Godwin, Wise
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Covid and the Constitution
Covid and the Constitutionby Michael DoyleVoices arrayed together against an institutionOut of control of the reining in by the ConstitutionChecks and balances swept away along with our rightsStill, we ride forward like beleaguered knightsStay at home orders meant for communicable … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Amendment, Abeyance, Abuse of Authority, Adversity, Aghast, America, Array, Ask, Beautiful, Beleaguered Knights, Best Practices, Blight, Bureaucrats, Case, Casinos, Chains, Checks and Balances, Churches, Closed Down, Constitution, Contrarian, Conversation, Cost of Silence, Course, Covid, Crown, Current Crisis, Death or Liberty, Decision, Deliberation, Desperate Situation, Dictate, Draconian Regulation, Economy, Effective, Embrace, Emergency Police Powers, Enforcement Issues, Executive Branch, Executive Dictate, Exercise, Face, Fail, Federal, Feduce, Force, Forgiving, Fray, Free, Freedom, Freedoms, Functionalism, Good Citizens, Governance, Government, Great, Health, History, Hour, Institution, Interpretation, Irritation, Jeopardy, Laboring Oar, Legal, Legislation, Legislature, Libertarian, Liberty, Limitation, Lives Lived, Looking Out, Loss of Our Liberty, Lost Liberty, Machination, Make A Living, Mankind, Mask, Money, Nation, Natural Law, Nature, New Normal, Noble, Open, Others Will Take, Out of Control, Overbearing, Partisan Warfare, Peaceful Assembly, Permanent Emergency, Perspective, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Political Landscape, Pretending, Price, Protected Right, Pushback, Question, Quiet, Rationalism, Recall, Rein In, Restrain, Right, Rights, Rigor, Rule of Law, Safety, Samuel Adams, Sealed Fate, Security, Seize, Separation of Powers, Soul of Our Nation, States, Stay At Home Orders, Steps, Strangle, Stripping Away, Strong Enough, Surrender, Suspension, Swept Away, Technocrats, The Courts, The People, Today, True Representation, Ugly, Unending, Unfair, Urgency, Virtue Signaling, Virus, Vocal, Voices, We The People, Welfare, Withstand, Worse
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First Principles: Act Worthy of Yourselves
“Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rest … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Aid, America, Decide, Determine, Enemies, First Principles, Fortunes, Free, Happiness, Heaven and Earth, Joseph Warren, Liberty, Many Friends, Millions, Numerous, Powerful, Question, Resolution, Unborn, We, Worthy, Yourselves
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For God So Loved the World
For God So Loved the Worldby Michael DoyleSpeaking across the latitude of agesComes the noble language of sagesTouching each soul as each an individualComprehended as fully as we are capableEternal questions fill up our needAs we learn and grow as … Continue reading
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Tagged Acclamation, Act, Adventure, Adversity, Ages, All, Angels, Appear Evil, Atone, Atrocious, Attest, Bane, Beleiver, Believe, Blasphemy, Blind See, Blood, Blur, Bureaucrat, Burn, Capable, Cast, Celebration, Christ, Christian Persecution, Clear, Comprehend, Conspire, Convert, Core, Corruption, Dangerous Man, Darkness, Death, Deception, Deliverance, Den of Thieves, Destroy, Detail, Die, Different Preceptions, Distraction, Divine, Divine Love, Divine Spark, Divniity, Each Human, Emperor, Empty, Ends, Etched, Eternal Questions, Everlasting Life, False Accusation, False Security, False Wisdom, Fear, Feel, Fire, First Stone, Flesh, Forever, Forgiveness, Found, Frame, Free, Friends, Fullness, Fully, God, Grow, Guides, Heal Disease, Healing, Heaven and Earth, Heavens, Hereafter, Higher Purpose, Holy, Holy Name, Human Depravity, Humanity Haters, In the Beginning, Incorporation, Indignity, Individual, Innocent Man, Jealous Deity, Jesus, John, Judgment, Last Breath, Laughter, Learn, Learn From the Past, Legacy, Light, Live, Live This, Living God, Living Word, Locked In A Struggle, Logos, Lord, Loved, Meet All, Messiah, Miracle of Gladness, Miss, Money Changers, Morality, More, Motivate, Mount Olive, Mystery, Necessary, Need, Nero, No Guilt, Noble Language, Open Wide, Ordinary People, Path, Pharisees, Philosophical, Photograph, Pilate, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Preach, Price To Be Paid, Professors, Prose, Purity, Purpose, Read, Reason, Rebbe, Recognition, Rejoice, Renounce, Revealed, Right, Rigorous Test, Roman Nation, Romance, Rome, Sacraments, Sacrifice, Sages, Samaritan, Sanctification, Sand, Save, Scapegoated, Season, Self Procliaimed, Self Righteous, Seneca, Sent Into the World, Serve, Sin No More, Sophia, Soul, Soul Slavation, Speak, Step, Stolen, Stone, Suffering, Suffering of the Lamb, Supreme Lesson, Surface, Synoptic Gospels, Teaches, the Word, Theology, To Set Us Free, Tomb, Touch, Transforming, True Divinity, True Necessity, Truth, Turning Water Into Wine, Understand, Universe, Us, Verse, Walking on Water, Washed His Hands, Water of Life, Weak, Well, Wisdom, Without Sin, Witness, Words, World, Wrath, Wrong Kingdom, Youth
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