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Thought For the Day: A Book, Once It Is Printed and Published, Becomes Individual
“A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book “means” thereafter, perforce, — both grammatically … Continue reading
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Tagged Author, Book, Child, Cut Off, Grammar, Individual, James Branch Cabell, Meaning, Means, Parent, Parturition, Printed and Published, Publication, Reader, Sever, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Your Love of Liberty – Your Respect for the Laws… and Your Practice of the Moral and Religious Obligations, Are the Strongest Claims to National and Individual Happiness
“Your love of liberty — your respect for the laws — your habits of industry — and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.” – George Washington (1789)
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Tagged Claim, First Principles, George Washington, Habit, Happiness, Individual, Industry, Law, Liberty, Love, Moral, National, Obligation, Practice, Religious, Respect
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First Principles: No Government, Any More Than An Individual, Will Long Be Respected Without Being Truly Respectable; Nor Be Truly Respectable, Without Possessing A Certain Portion of Order and Stability
“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.” – Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, Federalist No. 62, 1788
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First Principles: In Questions of Science, the Authority of A Thousand Is Not Worth the Humble Reasoning of A Single Individual
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” – Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
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First Principles: The Freedom and Happiness of Man…(Are) the Sole Objects of All Legitimate Government
“The freedom and happiness of man…[are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1810
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First Principles: In Short, Is Not Liberty the Freedom of Every Person To Make Full Use of His Faculties, So Long As He Does Not Harm Other Persons While Doing So?
“In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism — including, of … Continue reading
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Tagged Destruction of All Despotism, Does Not Harm Other Persons, Every Person, Faculties, First Principles, Frederic Bastiat, Freedom, Individual, Lawful Self-Defense, Legal Despotism, Liberty, Organizing, Punishing Injustice, Rational Sphere, Restricting of the Law, Right
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Thought For the Day: To Be A Socialist Is To Submit the I To the Thou; Socialism Is Sacrificing the Individual to the Whole
“To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.” – Joseph Gobbels Who is there that really still doubts that the National Socialistic Workers Party (NAZIs) were not socialists? … Continue reading
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First Principles: Let Each Citizen Remember At the Moment He Is Offering His Vote That He Is Not Making A Present Or A Compliment To Please An Individual…But That He Is Executing One Of the Most Solemn Trusts In Human Society
“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual – or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountable, Citizen, Compliment, Country, First Principles, God, Human Society, Individual, Present, Samuel Adams, Solemn Trust, Vot
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Thought For the Day: For Liberalism, the Individual Is the End and Society the Means. For Fascism, Society Is the End, Individuals the Means, and Its Whole Life Consists In Using Individuals As Instruments For Its Social Ends
“For liberalism, the individual is the end, and society the means. For fascism, society is the end, individuals the means, and its whole life consists in using individuals as instruments for its social ends.” – Alfredo Rocco (1875-1925) Does it … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfredo Rocco, Consist, Fascism, Individual, Instruments, Liberalism, Social Ends, Society, The End, The Means, Thought For the Day, Using, Whole LIfe
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First Principles: The Bill of Rights Establishes Some Rights of the Individual As Unalienable and Which Consequently, No Majority Has A Right To Deprive Them Of
“[The Bill of Rights] establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.” – Albert Gallatin (1789)
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