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First Principles – Speak After Thinking

“Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject.” – George Washington (1787) In best, or at least better, understanding the founding principles … Continue reading

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First Principles – Undue Foreign Influence

“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)

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