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First Principles: To Be Respected Be Respectable
“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.” – James Madison, Federalist No. 62, 1788
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First Principles: Each Person Is Protected In the Right To Worship Per the Dictates of Their Conscience
“[E]very man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.” – George Washington, letter to the … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: The Battle To Be Yourself Is the Hardest, Best Battle Fought
“To be nobody but myself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.” – … Continue reading
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First Principles: For A Government To Be Respected, It Must Be Respectable
“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable.” — James Madison, in Federalist 62
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Thought For the Day: Being Your Own Person Is Hard But Worth It
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too … Continue reading
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Tagged Individual, Price, Privilege, Rudyard Kipling, Self, Thought For the Day, Tribe
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