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First Principles: A Heavenly Master Governs All the World As Sovereign of the Universe. We Are Astonished At Him By Reason of His Perfection
“A Heavenly Master governs all the world as Sovereign of the universe. We are astonished at Him by reason of His perfection, we honor Him and fall down before Him because of His unlimited power. From blind physical necessity, which … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: That Government Is Best Which Governs the Least, Because Its People Discipline Themselves
“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.” – Henry David Thoreau
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First Principles: How Could A State Be Governed, Or Protected In Its Foreign Relations If Every Individual Remained Free To Obey Or Not Obey the Law According To His Private Opinion
“How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.” – Thomas Hobbes
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First Principles: The States Can Best Govern Our Home Concerns…I Wish Therefore…Never To See All Offices Transferred To Washington
“The States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore … never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly … Continue reading
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Tagged All Offices, Bought and Sold, Eyes, First Principles, General Government, Govern, Home Concerns, Market, Secret, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Washington, Wish, Withdrawn
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First Principles: We Have Staked the Future of All Our Political Constitutions Upon the Capacity of Each of Ourselves To Govern Ourselves According To the Moral Principles of the Ten Commandments
“We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according … Continue reading
First Principles: Our Liberty Depends On Our Education, Our Laws, and Habits…It Is Founded On Morals and Religion Whose Authority Reigns In the Heart
“Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs … Continue reading
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Tagged Authority, Education, First Principles, Fisher Ames, Founded, Govern, Habit, Heart, Influence, Law, Liberty, Morals, Public Opinion, Reign, Religion, Rulers
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Citizens: Me and You
Citizens: Me and Youby Michael DoyleI. This nation was born under the authorityBlessed into birth by God’s wise dignityAs one filled with freedom and libertyGiven to us, not by government, but God’s divinityWe, this republic, are born by providenceThat all … Continue reading
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Tagged American Civilization, Authority, Belief and Obedience, Bible, Birth, Christianity, Citizens, Commandments, Conspicious, Daily Affairs, Duality, Faith, Faithfulness, Freedom and Liberty, God, God's Divinity, God's Hand, Godly Principles, Govern, Government, Gratitude, History, Independence, Inheritance, Interplay, Jesus, Liberties, Madison, Maintenance, Manifest, Mayflower Compact, Me and You, Nation, Oppressed, Patrick Henry, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Prayerful Hands, Promise, Providence, Representation, Republic, Reverence, Right Attitude, Samuel Adams, Scrripture, Sin, Sovereign, Spirituality, Station, The People, Under God, Washington
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First Principles: Knowledge Will Forever Govern Ignorance: And A People Who Mean To Be Their Own Governors, Must Arm Themselves With the Power Which Knowledge Gives
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” – James Madison, Correspondence to W.T. Barry (August 4, 1822)
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First Principles: I Never Doubted, For Instance, the Existence of the Deity; That He Made the World, and Governed It By His Providence
“I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that he made the world, and governed it by his Providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and … Continue reading
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Tagged Acceptable Service, All Crime, Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin, Deity, Doing Good, Doubt, Existence, First Principles, God, Govern, Here, Hereafter, Immortal, Made, Man, Providence, Punished, Rewarded, Souls, Virtue, World
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