Tag Archives: John Adams

First Principles: People and Nations Are Forged In the Fires of Adversity

Posted on September 16, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.” – John Adams

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First Principles: National Defense Is One of the Cardinal Duties of A Statesman

Posted on September 13, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.” – John Adams (1815)

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First Principles: We Must Take Care To Elevate Our Children’s Minds, Courage and Souls Encouraging Them To Excel In Every Capacity, Faculty and Virtue

Posted on July 20, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The American Revolution Bonded Principles of Civil Government With Principles of Christianity

Posted on June 29, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.” – John Adams

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First Principles: Our Obligation To America Ends Only With Our Lives

Posted on June 6, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.” – John Adams (1808)

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First Principles: Liberty, Once Lost, Is Lost Forever

Posted on June 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“But a constitution of government once changed from freedom can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.””– John Adams

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First Principles: Our Constitution Was Made For A Moral and Religious People and Is Inadequate To Govern Otherwise

Posted on May 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution … Continue reading →

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First Principles: No Government Has The Power to Contend With Human Passions Unbridled By Morality and Religion

Posted on May 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion… Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – … Continue reading →

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First Principles: There Has Never Been A Democracy That Did Not Commit Suicide

Posted on April 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” – John Adams (and that’s why we’re a republic and not a democracy says every right thinking … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Nation Taking the Bible As Their Only Law Would Be Obliged In Conscience To Temperance, Frugality, Industry, Justice, Kindness and Charity Toward Mankind and To Piety

Posted on April 1, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; … Continue reading →

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