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First Principles: Humanity Has Won Its Battle. Liberty Now Has A Country.
“Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.”– Marquis de Lafayette — This quoted excerpt from a letter from Marquis de Lafayette shortly after Yorktown captures the triumph of the human spirit in achieving freedom and establishing our … Continue reading
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Tagged American Republic, Battle, Completed Work, Complexity, Country, Degrees of Freedom, Economic Disparity, First Principles, Freedom, History, Human Spirit, Humanity, Individuals, Liberty, Marquis de Lafayette, Modern Times, New York Times, Perpetual Pursuity, Politics, Reference, Revolutionary War, Social Inequality, Understanding, United States of America, Work In Progress
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Thought For the Day: If You Do Not Take An Interest In the Affairs of Your Government, Then You Are Doomed To Live Under the Rule of Fools
“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.” – Plato, there are several alternative translations of this passage taken from Republic, Book 1, 347c … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Abstention, Accounability, Affairs, Affect Change, Altruistic Intentions, Apathy, Approach, Benefit, Betterment of Society, Decisions, Democracy, Discussion, Doom, Education, Engagement, General Will, Government, History, Impact, Influence, Interest, Jean-Jacqu Rosseau, Knowledge, Modern Politics, Morass, Negative Consequences, News, Participation, Plato, Political Disengagement, Political Dynamics, Political Process, Politics, Practical Leadership Qualities, Republic, Rule of Fools, Shape, Social Arena, Thought For the Day, Valid Concerns, Voices, Well-Being, Wisdom
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A Speculative Blush of History
A Speculative Blush of Historyby Michael DoyleIn part, science fiction involves mysteryOther times, speculation about historyWhat might have been or might well beHad things only turned out a bit differentlyAll the casual moments of interpretationOf events real and in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Blush, Deduction, Depcition, Differently, Facts, Fictive, Historical Speculation, History, Imagination, Interpretation, Machination, Mystery, Observation, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Reconstrution, Science, Science Fiction, Speculative, Templates, Theory, War and Peace
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Virtue and Disobedience
Virtue and Disobedienceby Michael DoylePainting away your dayAs old records playEach portrait painted with feelingIs nothing less than soul-revealingThat is to say about the painters’ waysNot of the sitter, despite honoring his daysSpending time on crafting the right impressionThis is … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Artist's Confession, Confident, Control, Dangerous, Deal, Death, Depravity, Disobedience, Drink Away, Duress, Equally Unafraid, Evil, Explanation, Feeling, Genuis, Great Ideas, Heart, History, Holidy, Immoral, Indignity, Innocent, Knife Blade, Lips, Madman, Mask, Mystery, Old Records, Pain, Paint, Painter, Pawns, Phantom Lover, Plain, Poetry and Poems, Polish, Portrait, Possibility, Rationalization, Regrets, Rewrite History, Right Impression, Saint, See, Sitter, Skill Set, Sorrow, Soul Revealing, Strangeness of Life, Survivors, Truth, Virtue, Wolves, Wonder
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Giving Our Best Attitude
Giving Our Best Attitudeby Michael DoyleWe find our safety and securityIn what brings us true libertyTo live our lives as we want to beThis is the path of living freeWe pass some things on as a legacyThe Bible reflects this … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Attitude, Bible, Books of the Law, Childlike Attitudes, Christianity, Complexity, Faith, Family Rules, Forward, Fredom, Future, Give, God, God's Ways, Gratitude, History, Jesus, Legacy, Living Free, Love Letter, Myster, Path, Poetry and Poems, Real Good, Relationship, Rules and Guidance, Safety, Securit, Servants of God, Teach, The Bible, True Liberty, Understood, Unit, Worship
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Nat Turner’s Legacy
Nat Turner’s Legacyby Michael DoyleExceptions seldom make the ruleFoolish thinkers need their schoolThose who dwell on the mysteryOf why so few rose against slaveryIt is a cowardice of cultureThat we cannot afford to nurtureLet’s recall a moment of historyLived by … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, American History, Asunder, Blood and Brutality, Civil War, Country, Cowardice of Culture, Criticism, Death, Destiny, Dignity, Easy Lesson, Education, Equal Opportunity, Exceptions, Experiment, Field, Fight, Foolish Thinkers, Freedom and Liberty, God and Science, Greatest Republic, Hard Road, History, Incendiary, Inspiration, Ironic, Legacy, Liberty, Luxury, Mystery, Nat Turner, Ntion, Nurture, Optimism, Path Forward, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Promise, Prophecy, Rage, Re;public, Revelation, Revolution, Right, Satisfaction, School, Scourge, Sinners, Slavery, Soul, The Rule, Theology, Victory, Vision, Voice, Wickedness Revealed
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First Principles: Every Child In America Should Be Acquainted With His Own Country. He Should Read Books That Furnish Him With Ideas That Will Be Useful To Him In Life and Practice
“Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse … Continue reading
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Tagged Acquainted, America, Books, Country, Every Child, First Principles, History, Ieads, Life and Practice, Lips, Noah Webster, Own Country, Read, Reheasse, Useful
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Furthering Conformance To the Cross
Furthering Conformance To the Crossby Michael DoyleWith an amazing sense of unearned graceThe foot of the Cross can be embracedAn essence of sin drives our theologyAs we acknowledge the truth of you and meConforming ourselves to the Bible’s mirrorIt’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandonment, Amazing, Attrittion, Better Place, Bible's Mirror, Blame, Blessed Lives, Brokenness, Buffet, Capacity For Good, Challenge, Conformance, Cross, Dark Momentum, Edging God Out, Ego, Embrace, Ephesians, Error, Faith, Father's Name, Fear, Foot of the Cross, Free, Gentile and Jew, Globalization, Gluttony, God, Godlessness, Good, Grace, Here To There, History, Holy, Jesus, Life, Love, Manutrition, Midst, Modernization, Nation, Necessity, Pluralization, Poetry and Poems, Post-Modernist Nation, Relations, Secularization, Self-Examination, Shifting Communication, Sin, Spiritual, Spirituality, Strive, Theology, Thought, Truth, Understood, Unearned Grace, Unknown
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First Principles: A Republic, By Which I Mean A Government In Which the Scheme of Representation Takes Place, Opens A Different Prospect and Promises the Cure For Which We Are Seeking
“A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.” – James Madison (1790) The idea that we live in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Cure, Democracy, First Principles, Government, History, James Madison, Politics, Promises, Prospect, Representation, Republic, Scheme, Seek
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 