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First Principles: Let There Be No Change By Usurpation; For Though This, In One Instance, May Be the Instrument of the Good, It Is the Customary Weapon By Which Free Governments Are Destroyed
“If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, Destruction, First Principles, Free Government, George Wshington, Good, Instrument, One Instance, Usurpation, Weapon
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Thought For the Day: A Guitar Is A Very Personal Extension of the Person Playing It. You Have To Be Emotionally and Spiritually Connected To Your Instrument
“A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I’m very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.” – Eddie Van Halen
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Tagged Connect, Eddie Van Halen, Emotionl, Extension, Guitar, Instrument, Person, Personal, Play, Spiritual, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Prosperity Is Only An Instrument To Be Used, Not a Deity To Be Worshipped
“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshiped.” – Calvin Coolidge
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Tagged Calvin Coolidge, Deity, First Principles, Instrument, Prosperity, Worship
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Thought For the Day: Lord, Make Me An Instrument of Thy Peace. Where There Is Hatred, Let Me Sow Love
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.” – St. Francis of Assisi
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Tagged Hatred, Instrument, Lord, Love, Peace, Sow, St. Francis of Assisi, Thought For the Day, Where
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First Principles: War Is Not the Best Engine For Us To Resort To; Nature Has Given Us One In Our Commerce
“War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with justice.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Engine, Commerce, First Principles, Instrument, Justice, Nations, Nature, Oblige, Properly Managed, Thomas Jefferson, War
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What Our God Does
What Our God Doesby Michael DoyleLooking at what God has doneWe become baptized in the SonThe details have some meaningIn burying the wrong of our beingStepping into being taken into a new lifeWe take on the peace by putting away … Continue reading
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Tagged Acts, Ananias, Audacious Purpose, Baptized, Being, Blinding Light, Bumpy Path, Bury, Christian Zeal, Death, Details, Early Church, Enemy, Faith, Following God, Foundation, God Does, God's Intent, Hero, Instrument, Last Breath, Meaning, Mistaken, New Life, New Look, Odds, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Purposes, Radical Expression of Grace, Right, Righteousness of Ministry, saul, Saul Became Paul, Set Us Free, Son, Strife, The Book, Victory of Christ, Walk, Wrong
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First Principles: Our Constitution Is An Instrument For the People To Restrain the Government
“[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.” – Patrick Henry
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Tagged Constitution, First Principles, Governmet, Instrument, Patrick Henry, Restrain, The People
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First Principles: The Army (Considering the Irritable State It Is In, Its Suffering and Composition) Is A Dangerous Instrument To Play With
“The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.” – George Washington (1783)
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Tagged Composition, Danger, First Principles, George Washington, Instrument, Irritable State, Play, Suffer, The Army
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A Lament for Michael the Archangel
A Lament of Michael,the Archangelby Michael Doyle The day after celebrating the birth of a daughterI return again to the celebration of the FatherRevisiting instruction in the ways of the kingdomAnd a memory of the better man that I’ve become … Continue reading
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Tagged Archangel, Authority, Become, Better Man, Birth, Blessed Hour, Celebration, Compassion, Daughter, Deception, Defeat, Defender, Ends of the Earth, Father, Father's Feet, Head of the Church, Hell, Indwell, Instruction, Instrument, Jesus, Joy, Lament, Lessons, Memory, Michael, Michael the Archangel, Mirth, Peace, Perception, Poetry and Poems, Power, Power of God, Protector, Recall, Reminder, Satan and His Minions, Serpent, Sight, Sought, Strength, Taught, Time, Ultimately, Walk, Ways of the Kingdom, Wicked World, Wisdom, Witnesses
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