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First Principles: If You Do Not Take An Interest In the Affairs of Your Government, Then You Are Doomed To Live Under the Rule of Fools

Posted on May 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.” – Plato

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A Nephilim Hypothesis

Posted on February 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Nephilim Hypothesisby Michael DoyleThere were legends of giants in those daysWho walked the earth living beside manThe Bible explains their different waysAs sons of God from the daughters of manJust who were the NephilimWho lived in a past that … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Bountiful Father!…Increase In Me That Wisdom Which Discovers My Truest Interest. Strengthen My Resolution To Perform What That Wisdom Dictates

Posted on January 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates.” – Benjamin Franklin, in his Autobiography (Yet some still try to paint Franklin as … Continue reading →

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First Principles: There Must Be A Positive Passion For the Public Good…Established In the Minds of the People, Or There Can Be No Republican Government

Posted on December 12, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty.” – John Adams (1776)

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First Principles: There Is No Maxim…Which Is More Liable To Be Misapplied,…Than…That the Interest of the Majority Is the Political Standard of Right and Wrong

Posted on September 6, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.” – James Madison … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Mild Voice of Reason…Is…Too Often Drowned…By the Clamors of An Impatient Avidity For Immediate and Immoderate Gain

Posted on August 30, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain.” – James … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Ambition Must Be Made To Counteract Ambition

Posted on June 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Lots of Times You Have To Pretend To Join A Parade In Which You’re Not Really Interested In Order To Get Where You’re Going

Posted on May 5, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you’re not really interested in order to get where you’re going.” – Christopher Morley, writer (5 May 1890-1957)

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Thought For the Day: We Must Do A Little Thinking Every Day and Not Pass Up the Front Page For the Sports Page As We Did Before. Vigilance Pays Interest and Compounds Into Peace

Posted on May 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Henceforward we must do a little civil thinking every day And not pass up the front page for the sports page as we did before. Vigilance pays interest and compounds into peace.” – Norman Corwin

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Thought For the Day: You May Not Be Interested In War, but War Is Very Interested In You

Posted on March 24, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“You may not be interested in war, but war is very interested in you.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi (1828-1910)

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