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Thought For the Day: Liberty Is the Hardest Test
“Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.” – Paul Valéry (1871-1945) A nice poem of his: http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/valery.html … Continue reading
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Tagged Freedom, Government, Inclinations, Liberty, Paul Valery, Test, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Our Government Is For the Common Good of Its Citizens and Not Just one Class or Group
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an … Continue reading
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Tagged Common Good, First Principles, Government, John Adams, Private Interests, Reformation, The People
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First Principles: A Nation Should Use the Same Prudence In Finances As An Individual Would Use
“The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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Tagged Expenditures, Finance, First Principles, Government, Personal, Private, Projects, Prudence, Public, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Right Reason and Natural Law Lead to Perfect Freedom
“The most perfect freedom consists in obeying the dictates of right reason, and submitting to natural law. When a man goes beyond or contrary to the law of nature and reason, he becomes the slave of base passions and vile … Continue reading
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Tagged Base Passions, Disorder, First Principles, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, Right Reason, Samuel West
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First Principles: Experiments In Government Should Be Based On Honesty
“This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.” — Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, 1796 What it should never be besides … Continue reading
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Tagged First Principles, Force, Government, Honestly, John Adams, Political Theory, Reformation, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Private Morality Must Precede Public
“If individuals be not influenced by moral principles; it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity of a … Continue reading
First Principles: Protection of Person and Property Are the Two Proper Aims of Government
“It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was … Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution, Ends of Government, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Joined, Personal Rights, Property, Republican
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First Principles: Power Should Be Restrained From Encroaching
“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.” –James Madison, Federalist No. 48, 1788
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Tagged Encroachment, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Limits, Nature, Power, Restraint, The Federalist Papers
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First Principles: Excessive Taxation Brings the Ruin of A Nation
“There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much as the business of taxation. The man who understands those principles best will be least … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Class Warfare, Economy, First Principles, Government, Opportunity, Oppressioin, Revenue, Taxation
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First Principles: A Main Purpose of the Constitution Is To Bind Government From Mischief
“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” — Thomas Jefferson (1798) If Jefferson had been alive during the Obama Administration in … Continue reading
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Tagged Confidence, Constitution, First Principles, Government, Power, Safeguard, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Vigilance
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