Tag Archives: Government

First Principles: If Congress Can Do Whatever In Their Discretion Can Be Done By Money, and Will Promote the General Welfare, the Government Is No Longer A Limited One, Possessing Enumerated Powers, But an Indefinite One, Subject To Particular Exceptions

Posted on July 22, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.” – James … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Ours Was the First Revolution In the History of Mankind That Truly Reversed the Course of Government…With Three Little Words: “We the People”

Posted on July 11, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: ‘We the people.’ … Almost all the world’s constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Systems of Education Should Be Adopted…Which May Not Only Diffuse A Knowledge of the Sciences But…Implant…the Principles of Virtue and Liberty

Posted on June 26, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Every Government Degenerates When Trusted To the Rulers of the People Alone. The People Themselves, Therefore, Are Its Only Safe Depositories

Posted on June 25, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)

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First Principles: We Have More Machinery of Government Than Is Necessary, Too Many Parasites Living On the Labor of the Industrious

Posted on June 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Ludlow, 1824

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First Principles: I Often Note With Equal Pleasure That God Gave This One Connected Country To One United People

Posted on June 4, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I often note with equal pleasure that God gave this one connected country to one united people — a people descended from the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in manners … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: A World of Unseen Dictatorship Is Conceivable, Still Using the Forms of Democratic Government

Posted on June 1, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.” – Kenneth Boulding (1910-1993)

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First Principles: It Does Me No Injury For My Neighbor To Say There Are Twenty Gods, Or No God. It Neither Picks My Pocket Nor Breaks My Leg.

Posted on May 30, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” – Thomas Jefferson

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Thought For the Day: Government Price-Fixing Once Started Has Alike No Justice and No End. It is An Economic Folly From Which This Country Has Every Right To Be Spared

Posted on May 24, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.” – Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)

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First Principles: It Is Error Alone Which Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself

Posted on May 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)

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