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First Principles: Peace Is Obtained By Being Ready For War
“If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.” – George Washington (1793)
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First Principles: Some Assimilation of Culture, Law and Tradition Is Required To Remain One People
“The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the Language, habits and principles which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or … Continue reading
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First Principles: Nations Told What To Do Have Independence Yet To Seek
“But if we are to be told by a foreign power … what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.” – George Washington (1796) … Continue reading
First Principles: To Have A Reputation for Weakness Destroys A Nation’s Credibility
“There is a rank due to the United States, among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.” – George Washington, Fifth Annual Message, 1793
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First Principles: Guard Against the Impostures of False Patriotism
“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” – George Washington (1796)
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First Principles: National Morality Cannot Prevail When Belief Is Excluded
“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Road That Providence Has Set For the United States Should Never Be Abandoned
“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: A Good Moral Character Is the First Essential In A Man
“[A] good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should … Continue reading
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First Principles: All Slavery Should Be Held In Abhorrence
“Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States. … I have, throughout my whole life, held the practice of slavery in … abhorrence.” – John Adams (1819) The … Continue reading
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First Principles: From Youth We Must Strive To Be Learned and Virtuous
“A good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should … Continue reading
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