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First Principles: The End of Law Is Not To Abolish Or Restrain, But To Preserve and Enlarge Freedom…Where There Is No Law, There Is No Freedom

Posted on November 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.” – John Locke

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Thought For the Day: All Men By Nature Are Equal In That Equal Right That Every Man Hath To His Natural Freedom, Without Being Subjected To the Will or Authority of Any Other Man

Posted on October 28, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Actions of Men Are the Best Interpreters of Their Thoughts

Posted on August 29, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.” – John Locke, philosopher (29 Aug 1632-1704)

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Thought For the Day: Where-ever Law Ends, Tyranny Begins

Posted on July 1, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.” – John Locke, in Two Treatises of Government (1689)

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First Principles: One Unerring Mark of the Love of Truth Is Not Entertaining Any Proposition With Greater Assurance Than the Proofs It Is Built Upon Will Warrant

Posted on March 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.” – John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704

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First Principles: We Are All Qualified, Entitled, and Morally Obligated To Evaluate the Conduct of Our Rulers

Posted on February 26, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers.” – English philosopher John Locke … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Wherever Law Ends, Tyranny Begins

Posted on March 5, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The difference betwixt a king and a tyrant to consist only in this, that one makes the laws the bounds of his power, and the good of the public, the end of government; the other makes all give way to … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The End of Law Is To Preserve and Enlarge Freedom

Posted on February 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

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First Principles: Lawmakers Who Attempt To Take the Property of the People Are At War With the People

Posted on February 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Government’s Only End Is the Preservation of Property

Posted on August 3, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.” – John Locke If we vote any of these socialists in the office of the presidency in 2020, we will have turned our backs on our founding principles,.. and I will … Continue reading →

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