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Daily Prompt – Unfallen
Today’s challenge is yet another from a conversation with a friend. I was explaining to Veri that years ago I had formed a guild in a fairly popular online game and called that guild The Unfallen. The guild’s purpose was … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle Front, Calling, Daily Prompt, Fallen, First Responders, Freedom, Heritage, Heroes, Home Front, Honor, Knights, Liberty, Military, Mothers, Price, Sacred Duty, Sacrifice, Salute, Service, Stil Standing, Tales, Unfallen, Wives
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Thought For the Day: Government Should Be A Referee, Not An Active Player
“When government — in pursuit of good intentions — tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active … Continue reading
Ways of Freedom
From time to time, it seems necessary to think on choices made and principles kept. Ways of Freedom by Michael Romani “Times march on”, says the old soldier Remembering back on times bolder But some things are best and better … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ashes, Blood, Chains, Freedom, Heritage, Kingdom, Legacy, Liberty, Masses, Old Soldier, Patriot, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Price Paid, Progress, Regression, Security, Tears, Tradition, Tyranny, Violence
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Thought For the Day: Freedom Is Never More Than One Generation Away From Extinction
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” – Ronald Reagan
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Tagged Extinction, Fight For, Freedom, Generation, Heredity, Heritage, Protect, Ronald W Reagan, Taught, Thought For the Day, United States
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Her Legacy
Last Sunday was a day of recognition and honor for women on an international level. When you think about it and all that women have done for us in all of their roles, shouldn’t every day be one? Her Legacy … Continue reading
First Principles: The Blessings of Freedom Require The Willingness To Fight For It
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine (1777)
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Tagged Blessings, Fight, First Principles, Freedom, Reap, Support, Thomas Paine
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First Principles: Humanity, Justice and Humanity Demand We Fight and Keep Our Freedom
“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding … Continue reading
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Tagged Descendants, First Principles, Freedom, Heritage, Honor, Humanity, Justice, Struggle, Surrender, Thomas Jefferson
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The Squishy Sound of Democracy
The suppression of free speech is a leading indicator of fascism not freedom and certainly not the small r republican values our Founding Fathers advocated in their classical liberalism. I for one refuse to bend to tyranny from any camp… … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Acceptance, Authoritarian, Bridges, Censorship, Classical Liberalism, Communicate, Conflict, Dangers, Democracy, Disagreeable Voices, Diversity, False Morality, Fascism, Founding Fathers, Free Speech, Freedom, Fundamental, Gaffes, Internet, Margin, Messy, Negotiation, New York Times, Objectivity, Opposition, Perversity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Points of View, Reason, Resolution, Riot, Self Responsibility, Social Control, Society, Strangers, Suppression, Times Square, True, Twitter, Tyranny
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First Principles: The Virtue of the People Is Our Best Security
“We may look up to armies for defense, but virtue is our best security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where virtue is not supremely honored.” – Samuel Adams, Letter to Joseph Warren, 1775 … Continue reading
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Tagged Army, Defense, First Principles, Freedom, Honor, Joseph Warren, Samuel Adams, Security, Virtue
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First Principles: To Abuse and Misuse Freedom of the Press, Cheapens Its Usefulness and Weakens Its Safety
“During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse of Rights, Danger, False Accusations, First Amendment, Freedom, Libel, Misuse of Rights, Safey, Slander, The Press, Thomas Jefferson, Usefulness
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