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Thought For the Day: You Can Only Protect Your Liberties In This World By Protecting the Other Man’s Freedom
“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom.” – Clarence Darrow
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Tagged Clarence Darrow, Freedom, Liberties, Other Man's, Protect, Thought For the Day, World, You
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To Our Feet
To Our Feetby Michael DoyleWe stand to our feetHanding Satan his defeatSinging our redemptionRising up in contemplationAs we think of our freedomHere in the Lord’s kingdomWe find the Lord in praiseSinging throughout our daysWe have defeated the graveThrough the power … Continue reading
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Tagged Belong, Christian Faith, Christian Friends, Contemplation, Days, Defeat, Embrace, Ends, Feet, Freedom, God's Love, Grave, Holy Song, Home, Joy, Lord's Kingdom, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Redemption, Rightful Place, Rise Up, Satan, Saves, Sing, Stand, Think
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Thought For the Day: The Hope of A Secure and Livable World Lies With Disciplined Nonconformists, Who Are Dedicated To Justice, Peace, and Brotherhood
“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace, and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress … Continue reading
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Tagged Brotherhood, Cause, Dedication, Discipline, Faith, Freedom, Hope, Justice, Liveable, Mankind, Martin Luther King Jr., Nonconformist, Peace, Progress, Secure, Thought For the Day, Trailblazers, World
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Thought For the Day: Freedom Is the Sure Possession of Those Alone Who Have the Courage To Defend It
“Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.” – Pericles
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Tagged Alone, Courage, Defend, Freedom, Pericles, Possession, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: The Safeguard of Morality Is Religion, and Morality Is the Best Security of Law As Well As the Surest Pledge of Freedom
“The safeguard of morality is religion, and morality is the best security of law as well as the surest pledge of freedom.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, First Principles, Freedom, Morality, Pledge, Religion, Safeguard, Security of Law
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Long Live Freedom
Dedicated and inspired by Argentinian President Milei at Davos: Long Live Freedomby Michael DoyleFreedom is the path to prosperitySocialism, of any kind, leads to povertyThe Western World would be well-advisedTo keep toward liberty, as the best plan devisedAn example can … Continue reading
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Tagged Ailments, Argentina, Better Price, Cake, Capitalism, Collectivism, Contemptuous, Destitution, Economics, Economy, Empirical Observation, Entrepreneur, Example, Extreme Poverty, Free Market Economy, Freedom, GDP, Goods and Services, Help the Poor to Rise, Incentive, Industrial Revolution, Liberty, Long Live, Market Discovery Process, Moral Path, Natural Consequence, Pandmic, Philosophy, Plague, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Poverty, Prosperity, Prosperous, Recompense, Social Justice, Socialism, Solution, Success, The Left, Trust, Unfair, Unjust, Western World, Wise, World Hunger
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First Principles: Only A Virtuous People Are Capable of Freedom. As Nations Become Corrupt and Vicious, They Have More Need of Masters
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Tagged Capable, Corrupt, First Principles, Freedom, Masters, Nation, Need, Vicious, Virtuous People
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Ways of Life Previously Chosen
Ways of Life Previously Chosenby Michael DoyleEating smoked salmon and in contemplationAbout what will be the fate of my nationI will let no untruths be varnished or toldBut insist on telling how history did unfoldI have watched the destruction of … Continue reading
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Tagged 13th Through 15th Amendments, 1860s, 1960s, 40 Acres and A Mule, ACA, Actual History, America, America's Legacy, American Power, American Soul, Aspiration, Assimilation, Bells and Lights, Bill of Goods, Bill of Rights, Black, Blight, Blood and Tears, Brooks, Bureaucracy, Calhoun, Choose, Chosen, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Common Man, Complicit, Contemplation, Credit, Creed, Crockett, Cross Road, Cruelty, Darker Brothers, Deep State, Deliberate Illusion, Delivered, Democratic Republcian, Democratic Standard, Destruction, DNC, Doubling Debt, Douglas, Dredging Up the Truth, Dysfunction, Economical, Election Day, Election Year, End Slavery, Ensure, Equal Opportunity, Equal Rights, Equality, Equity, Equivalency, Extorionate, Fable, Fact, Fair Life, False Flag, Fate, Filibustered, Focus, Freedom, Frelinghuysen, Fringe, Gang, Greenlight, History, Inconvenient, Indian Removal Act, Instill Fear, Islamic Militancy, Jackson, Jefferson, Kleptocracy, Knee, Lands, Lash, Legacy, Liberty, Lies of Equity, Lincoln, Love For the People, Merit, Military, Modern Democrats, Modern History, Nation, Native American, North and South, Not So Distant Past, Obama, Open Opportunity, Opposing Listeners, Pathway, Permanent, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Price Paid, Priority, Profit, Promises, Racism, Real Fight, Real History, Recalled, Republican, Restore, Right To Vote, Rule of Law, Sexual Plunder, Shackled, Shivered, Slavery, Sleight of Hand, Smoked Salmon, Social Justice, Stand Up In the Front, Steeple, Stumble, Suffragettes, Supreme Court, Sword, Tainted Legacy, Taught, The Hermitage, Theft, Tocquieveille, Told, Trading Lives, Trail of Tears, Understood, Unfold, Untruth, Varnish, Vehement, Votes Are Cast, War, Ways of Life, Whip, White, White House, Women, Worth
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First Principles: A Constitution of Government Once Changed From Freedom Can Never Be Restored. Liberty, Once Lost, Is Lost Forever
“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” – John Adams (1775)
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Tagged Change, Constitution, First Principles, Forever, Freedom, Government, John Adams, Liberty, Lost, Restore
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Chanukah and Antisemitism
In solidarity with the Jewish people around the globe on this first night of Chanukah! Chanukah and Antisemitismby Michael DoyleIn what should be a quiet season filled with optimismIt is hard to feel life without a bit of pessimismStill, menorah … Continue reading
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Tagged #MeToo, Antistemitism, Base Urges, Beasts of Satan, Bediviled Resistance, Belief, Brave, Brotherhood, Burning Bush, Celebration, Chanukah, Coexist, Conflict, Courage, Cowards, Dignity, Divine Light, Dull Coldness, Elie Wisel, Encourage, Fate, Fear, Festival of Lights, Forces of Intolerance, Freedom, Friends, God's Presence, Grief, Hand In Hand, Hate-Filled, Heaer, Hopeless, Indivisible, Jewish Obligation, Jewish People, Joy and Sorrow, Judaism, Just End, Late, Light, Light Each Candle, Manipulated, Miracle, Monrah, Neutrality, Oil Burning, Oppressed, Oppressed People, Oppressor, Optimism, Peoples of Faith, Persevereance, Perverse, Pessimism, Plight, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Prominent, Quench, Rabbi, Rededication, Relief, Sanctuary, Season, Shamash, Shield and Comfort, Side By Side, Sihine, Silence, Solidarity, Speak, Stand Firm, Stand United, Stay Alive, Survive, Survivors, Take Side, Temple, Tormented, Tormentor, Trace, Truth, Unspeakable Hate, Victim, Visibility, World and Universe
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