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Tag Archives: Honest
In A Parisian Crowd
In A Parisian Crowdby Michael DoyleThe French soul Is wrapped around500 year old plumbingLike a lump of coalOn a Christmas dayIt has its significanceAnd at times its magnificenceBut there’s something to sayFor finding other, better waysAnd even the naughty findIt … Continue reading
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Tagged Acquit, Better Ways, Brazen, Breaks Your Fall, Bridge, Christmas Day, Clueless, Coal, Contribution, Controversy, Crowd, Faux Culture, French Soul, French Way, Gaze, Guilty, Habit, Heresy, Honest, Joke, Knife, Lonely, Magnificence, Nude, Numb, Paris, Parisian, Play, Plumbing, Poetry and Poems, Politically Incorrect, Quit, Rightful Place, Say, Significance, Solution, Sranger, Talk, Truth, Wrap
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First Principles: There Exists In the Economy and the Course of Nature, An Indissoluble Union Between Virtue and Happiness…and the Solid Rewards of Public Prosperity and Felicity
“There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Advantage, Course of Nature, Duty, Economy, Exist, Felicity, First Principles, George Washington, Happiness, Honest, Indissoluble, Magnanimous, Maxims, Policy, Public Prosperity, Reward, Union, Virtue
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First Principles: The Great Principles of Right and Wrong Are Legible To Every Reader
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Aim, Art of Government, Counselor, Credit, Duty, Fail, First Principles, Great Principles, Honest, Legible, Mankind, People, Reader, Require, Right and Wrong, Self, Think
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First Principles: The Whole Art of Government Consists In the Art of Being Honest. Only Aim To Do Your Duty, and Mankind Will Give You Credit Where You Fail
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.” – Thomas Jefferson (1775)
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Tagged A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Aim, Art, Consist, Credit, Duty, Fail, First Principles, Government, Honest, Mankind, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Only Aim To Do Your Duty, and Mankind Will Give You Credit Where You Fail
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Art of Government, Credit, Duty, First Principles, Honest, Legible, Mankind, People, Reader, Right and Wrong, Think and Act, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Republics Are Created By the Virtue, Public Spirit, and Intelligence of the Citizens
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, … Continue reading
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Tagged Betray, Citizens, Dare, Fall, First Principles, Flatter, Honest, Intelligence, Justice Joseph Story, Profligate, Public Council, Public Spirit, Republics, Reward, The People, Virtue, Wise
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First Principles: The Whole Art of Government Consists In the Art of Being Honest. Only Aim To Do Your Duty, and Mankind Will Give You Credit Where You Fail
“The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.” – Thomas Jefferson (1774)
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Tagged 1774, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Aim, Consists, Credit, Duty, Fail, First Principles, Government, Honest, Mankind, Whole Art
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