Tag Archives: John Adams

First Principles: It Should Be Your Care, Therefore, And Mine, To Elevate the Minds of Our Children and Exalt Their Courage. If We Suffer Their Minds To Grovel and Creep In Infancy, They Will Grovel All Their Lives

Posted on May 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage… If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.” – John Adams (1756)

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First Principles: Remember, Democracy Never Lasts Long, It Soon Wastes, Exhausts, and Murders Itself. There Never Was A Democracy Yet That Did Not Commit Suicide

Posted on March 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I might have exhibited as many millions of plebeians sacrificed by the pride, folly, and ambition of their fellow-plebeians and their own, in proportion to the extent and duration of their power. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, … Continue reading →

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First Principles: They Define A Republic To Be A Government of Laws, and Not of Men

Posted on March 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.” – John Adams (1775)

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First Principles: Our Constitution Was Made Only For A Moral and Religious People. It Is Wholly Inadequate To the Government of Any Other

Posted on March 1, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams

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First Principles: There Is No Good Government But What Is Republican. The True Idea of A Republic Is ‘An Empire of Laws, and Not Men

Posted on February 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“There is no good government but what is republican. [T]he true idea of a republic is ‘an empire of laws, and not of men.’” – John Adams (1776)

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

Posted on January 25, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.” – John Adams (1815) Clearly, that includes defending the borders of our republic. The surge of illegal immigration cannot be allowed to go unchecked.

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First Principles: There Is No Good Government But What Is Republican

Posted on January 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“There is no good government but what is republican.” – John Adams (1776)

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First Principles: Always Stand On Principle…Even If You Stand Alone

Posted on December 30, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Always stand on principle…even if you stand alone.” – John Adams

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First Principles: The General Principles On Which the Fathers Achieved Independence Were the General Principles of Christianity

Posted on December 20, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“The general principles on which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity.” – John Adams

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First Principles: We Should Be Unfaithful To Ourselves If We Should Ever Lose Sight of the Danger To Our Liberties If Anything…Extraneous Should Infect the Purity of Our Free…Independent Elections

Posted on December 13, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” – John Adams (1797)

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