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Some Eyes Blaze

Some Eyes Blazeby Michael DoyleIn some passing instances,There is a reach of circumstances.We let it pass amusedThat it’s customary to feel abused.There’s a sense of brutalityAnd it prevades our family.We laugh at ourselves and cruelty,Uncertain how these things become banality.Some … Continue reading

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First Principles: There Is Not A Single Instance In History In Which Civil Liberty Was Lost, and Religious Liberty Preserved Entire

“There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire. If therefore we yield up our temporal property, we at the same time deliver the conscience into bondage.” – John Witherspoon, … Continue reading

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First Principles: The Ordaining of Laws In Favor of One Part of the Nation, To the Prejudice and Oppression of Another, Is Certainly the Most Erroneous Policy

“History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice … Continue reading

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