Tag Archives: George Washington

First Principles: Arbitrary Power Rises From Liberty Ruined By Licentiousness

Posted on October 1, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” – George Washington (1753)

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First Principles: Foreign Influence Is A Baneful Foe To Republican Government

Posted on September 22, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.” – George Washington (1796)

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First Principles: The Only Straight Course Is To Seek Truth Steadily

Posted on September 18, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” – George Washington (1795)

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First Principle: At Special Times and After Cool, Deliberate Thinking, The Real Voice of the People May Be Known

Posted on September 17, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.” – George Washington, letter to Edward Carrington, 1796

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First Principles: If We Ensure the Goodness of Our Cause and Rely On God, We Will Be Encouraged To Noble Actions

Posted on September 15, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die. … Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The United States Will Continue Richly Blessed As Long As We Follow God

Posted on September 4, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from … Continue reading →

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First Principles: No Constitution Can Stand Alone Against Boundless Ambition and Corrupted Morals

Posted on August 30, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“No compact among men … can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and … no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current … Continue reading →

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First Principles: There Is No Graver Error Than To Rest Our Nation On Favors From Other Nations

Posted on August 26, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favors from Nation to Nation. ‘Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.” – George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796 … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Virtue and Morality Are Necessary For Popular Free Government

Posted on August 25, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.” – George Washington (1796)

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First Principles: Beware the Bluster of Feigned Patriotism

Posted on August 19, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” – George Washington (1796)

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