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First Principles: Sad Will Be the Day When the American People Forget Their Traditions and Their History, and No Longer Remember …Their Country
“Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes … Continue reading
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Tagged American People, Armed Resistance, Bravery, Cherish, Country, First Principles, Freedom, History, Institution, Love, Preservation, Rememberance, Roger Sherman, Sad, Tradition, Tyranny
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Thought For the Day: The Institution of the Family Is Decisive In Determining Not Only If A Person Has the Capacity To Love Another Individual But…Whether He Is Capable of Loving His Fellow Men Collectively
“The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of … Continue reading
First Principles: Next To the Right of Liberty, the Right of Property Is the Most Important Individual Right Guaranteed By the Constitution
“Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any … Continue reading
First Principles: Individuality Is the Aim of Political Liberty
“Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to … Continue reading
First Principles: An Unlimited Power To Tax Involves, Necessarily, A Power To Destroy
“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.” – John Marshall (1819)
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Tagged Beynd, Destroy, First Principles, Institution, John Marshall, Limit, Power, Property, Tax, Taxation, Unlimited Power
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Thought For the Day: An Unlimited Power To Tax Involves, Necessarily, A Power To Destroy; Because There Is A Limit Beyond Which No Institution and No Property Can Bear Taxation
“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.” – John Marshall, 1819
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Tagged Destroy, Institution, John Marshall, Limit, Necessary, Power, Property, Tax, Taxation, Thought For the Day, Unlimited Power
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Covid and the Constitution
Covid and the Constitutionby Michael DoyleVoices arrayed together against an institutionOut of control of the reining in by the ConstitutionChecks and balances swept away along with our rightsStill, we ride forward like beleaguered knightsStay at home orders meant for communicable … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Amendment, Abeyance, Abuse of Authority, Adversity, Aghast, America, Array, Ask, Beautiful, Beleaguered Knights, Best Practices, Blight, Bureaucrats, Case, Casinos, Chains, Checks and Balances, Churches, Closed Down, Constitution, Contrarian, Conversation, Cost of Silence, Course, Covid, Crown, Current Crisis, Death or Liberty, Decision, Deliberation, Desperate Situation, Dictate, Draconian Regulation, Economy, Effective, Embrace, Emergency Police Powers, Enforcement Issues, Executive Branch, Executive Dictate, Exercise, Face, Fail, Federal, Feduce, Force, Forgiving, Fray, Free, Freedom, Freedoms, Functionalism, Good Citizens, Governance, Government, Great, Health, History, Hour, Institution, Interpretation, Irritation, Jeopardy, Laboring Oar, Legal, Legislation, Legislature, Libertarian, Liberty, Limitation, Lives Lived, Looking Out, Loss of Our Liberty, Lost Liberty, Machination, Make A Living, Mankind, Mask, Money, Nation, Natural Law, Nature, New Normal, Noble, Open, Others Will Take, Out of Control, Overbearing, Partisan Warfare, Peaceful Assembly, Permanent Emergency, Perspective, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Political Landscape, Pretending, Price, Protected Right, Pushback, Question, Quiet, Rationalism, Recall, Rein In, Restrain, Right, Rights, Rigor, Rule of Law, Safety, Samuel Adams, Sealed Fate, Security, Seize, Separation of Powers, Soul of Our Nation, States, Stay At Home Orders, Steps, Strangle, Stripping Away, Strong Enough, Surrender, Suspension, Swept Away, Technocrats, The Courts, The People, Today, True Representation, Ugly, Unending, Unfair, Urgency, Virtue Signaling, Virus, Vocal, Voices, We The People, Welfare, Withstand, Worse
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First Principles: Abuses of the Press and Media Are So Important To Freedom and Science As to Be Deeply Regrettable As These Tend To Lessen Its Usefulness and To Sap Its Safety
“During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuses, Administration, Charge, Dare, Deep, Devise, Disturb, First Principles, Freedom, Important, Institution, Lessen, Licentiousness, Order, Press, Regret, Safety, Sap, Science, Thomas Jefferson, Usefulness
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Our Finest Hour
At this stage of American history, we advanced onto the world stage having no real choice but to fight a war on multiple fronts in World War II and rather self consciously becoming a, if not the, world leader in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930s, 1940, Accommodation, Admiral Nimitz, Admiral Yamamoto, Air Craft Carrier, All-American, Allied Commander, Allies, America, American History, American Pride, Appeasement, Atom Bomb, Back, Battle, Battle of Britain, Battle of Midway, Beast, Berlin, Blitzkrieg, Break, Brunt, Capacity, China, Christian Civilization, City, Conflagration, Consideration, Converge, Countries, D-Day, Dead, Death Camps, Decision, Decisive, Decisively, Defeaat, Demoralize, Destructive, Devour, Dictator, Die, Direction, Domination, Drums, Dwight Eisenhower, Dynamics, Emperor, Endure, Engage, Expansion, FDR, Finest, Finest Hour, Fire Side Chat, Fourth, Free World, Freedom, General MacArthur, Germany, Halt, Hard Fought, Harry S Truman, Heart, Hiroshima, History, Hitler, Horror, Hour, Impossible, Industrial Ability, Infamy, Institution, Internal, International, Internationalist, Isolationist, Italy, Japan, Japanese, Jewish, June, Knockout Blow, Know, Last, Lend Lease Act, Luftwaffe, Manhattan Project, Mantle of Leadership, Materials, Merge, Might, Nagasaki, Nation, Navy, Nazi, Neutrality, Non-Aggression Pact, Normandy, North Atlantic, Obligations, Occupy, Okinawa, Opinion Poll, Organic, Pacific, Pacific Fleet, Paris, Past, Pearl Harbor, Permanent Sense, Philippines, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precedent, Predictability, Prinicples, Priority, Productivity, Reality, Revelation, Royal Air Force, Ruins, Russians, Secret, Secure, Self Conscious, Shadow, Shoulders, Shudder, Siege, Skies, Smoulder, Soviet Union, Stalin, Standing, Standing Army, Strategic, Stubborn, Supplies, Surrender, Sustain, Symbolic, Territorial Aggression, Thug, Treaty of Versailles, Turning Point, Two Prong, Typhoon of Steel, Unstoppable, Vain, VE Day, Victory, War, Will, Win, Winston Churchill, World, World Affairs, World Leader, World War II, Wrong
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