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Tag Archives: Freedom
A Poem for Patriots Day 2023
A Poem For Patriots Day 2023by Michael DoyleIn the heart of every patriot rests a songIn our love of country, under God, as we belongThe foundations are strong and pillars are highAs long as Old Glory ripples across the skyOther … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: At Least One Way of Measuring the Freedom of Any Society Is the Amount of Comedy That Is Permitted
“At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some … Continue reading
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Tagged Amount, Comedy, Eric Idle, Freedom, Healthy Society, Measure, One Way, Permit, Repress, Satire, Society, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: The True Meaning of America, you ask?…Freedom Is What America Means To the World. And To Me.
“The true meaning of America, you ask? It’s in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman’s badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper… In all these things, and many more, you’ll find America. In … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Audie L. Murphy, Freedom, Laughing Children, Me, Mean, Policeman's Badge, Texas Rodeo, Thought For the Day, True Meaning, World
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Thought For the Day: We Didn’t Love Freedom Enough. And Even More – We Had No Awareness of the Real Situation…We Purely and Simply Deserved Everything That Happened Afterward
“We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more — we had no awareness of the real situation… We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” – Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
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Tagged 1917, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Awareness, Deserve, Freedom, Happen, If, Love, Ouburst, Pleasure, Real Situation, Submit, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Many Problems That Our Nation Faces Begin With the Absence of Awe For the Miracle of Life
“In 2020, 39.2% of abortions were on Black women, who represent just 14% of the childbearing population. The data also shows that 86% of abortions are done on unmarried women, which points to the critical link between this destructive behavior … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, Awe, Black Women, Childbearing, Collapse of Marriage and Family, Destructive Behavior, Freedom, Miracle of Life, Nation, Pillars of a Healthy Society, Problems, Protect Life, Responsibility, Reverence, Right To Life, Star Parker, Thought For the Day, Unmarried Women
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Thought For the Day: Ideas Are Indeed the Most Dangerous Weapons In the World
“Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.” – Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)
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Tagged Forge, Freedom, Ideas, Political, Thought For the Day, ustice William O. Douglas, World
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Thought For the Day: Those Who Profess To Favor Freedom and Yet Depreciate Agitation, Are People Who Want Crops Without Ploughing the Ground
“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may … Continue reading
First Principles: The Right To Freedom Being the Gift of God Almighty, It Is Not In the Power of Man to Alienate This Gift, and Voluntarily Become A Slave
“The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave.” – Samuel Adams (1772)
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Thought For the Day: The Preservation of Freedom Is the Protective Reason For Limiting and Decentralizing Governmental Power
“The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power. But there is also a constructive reason. The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or in literature, in industry or agriculture, … Continue reading


