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First Principles: Liberty Consists In Freedom To Do All Desired That Injures No One Without Limit Except To Assure This Right To Everyone Else
“Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of … Continue reading
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Tagged Enjoy, Exercise, First Principle, Freedom, Injure, Liberty, Limit, Mankind, Maquis de Lafayette, Natural Rights, Rights, Society
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Heartland United
Tales of the American Heartland… Heartland United by Michael Romani We have one heartland united In a nation too divided Filled with hop and our heartbreak The nation’s heart awakes From Nebraska to the Central Valley There is a flavor … Continue reading
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Tagged 4th of July, America, Celebration, Central Valley, Dream, Flavor, Freedom, Genuine, Guitar, Handshake, Heartland, Horse, Integrity, Lullaby, Melody, Moon, Myth, Nashville, Nation, Nebraska, Ole Glory, Patriot, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Promise, Sentimental, Smile, Sophist, Tears, Town, United
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First Principles: Liberty, Once Lost, Is Lost Forever
“But a constitution of government once changed from freedom can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.””– John Adams
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Tagged Constituion, First Principles, Forever, Freedom, Government, John Adams, Liberty, Lost, Restore
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Thoughts On Arlington (Memorial Day 2019)
America has never been so seemingly divided since our Civil War. Thoughts On Arlington by Michael Romani With so many jokes out to rewrite history It really isn’t much of a mystery That our nation barely stands divided With too … Continue reading
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Tagged 1865, All, America, Appomattox, Arliington, Blood, Brother, Cemetery, Civil War, Divided, Eternal Flame, Fall, First Principles, Freedom, George Washington, God's Creation, Greatness, Heroes, Home, Honor, Lesson Learned, Memorial Day 2019, Nation, No Greater Love, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Revisionist History, Rite, Robert E Lee, Sister, Slaughter, Thought, Undivided, War, We The People, Wound
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First Principles: Freedom Requires Those Willing to Undergo the Rigors of Supporting It
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 4, September 11, 1777
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Tagged Blessings, Expect, Fatigue, First Principles, Freedom, Mankind, No. 4, Reap, Support, The American Crisis, Thomas Paine
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First Principles: Freedom, Not Servitude, Is the Cure For Anarchy; True Faith Is the Cure For Superstition
“Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.” – Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation with America, The Thirteen Resolutions (3/22/1775)
First Principles: It Is the Dearness of Freedom That Makes It So Valued and Valuable
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheap, Dearness, Esteem, First Principles, Freedom, Lightly, Obtain, Thomas Paine, Value
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First Principles: The End of Law Is To Preserve and Enlarge Freedom
“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.” – John Locke
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Tagged Abolish, End of Law, Enlarge, First Principles, Freedom, Goal, John Locke, Preserve, Restrain
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To Live and Die American
Flickr has broken my Flickr account. Not sure what I will do for photographs now or if I’ll ever be able to retrieve them. Meanwhile as I wait for their next response on the destruction they’ve done, I guess I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged American, Belief, Birth, Blind, Change, Character, Circumstance, Code, Correct, Death, Define, Difference, Dream, Eternal, Fight, Freedom, Good, Grief, Happy, Illuminate, Injustice, Journey, Lady Justice, Life, Light, Live and Die, Mind, Mistake, Photograph, Plan, Poem, Poetry, Right, Shade, Stars, Success, Sun, Talk, Walk
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Nostalgia For Guantanamo
Next on the series of challenges for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 11 is to write a poem pertinent to places of origin. It seems to me that regardless of place of birth or my history of Hawai’i and California, the place that … Continue reading
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