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First Principles: We Must Be Guided By An Exalted Justice and Benevolence
“It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a People always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.” — George Washington … Continue reading
Nightmare As A Child
Nightmare As A Child by Michael Romani A quiet child sits alone on the stairwell The teacher stops to talk, listening to her tale Over hot chocolate for two hold the marshmallow No fuss; no muss; no need to shout … Continue reading
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Tagged Doppelganger, Inner Child, Justice, Murder, Nightmare, Poem, Poetry, Twilight Zone
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A Nice Place To Visit
In the continuing promise to my eldest daughter, a poem based on the Twilight Zone Season 1, Episode 29, A Nice Place To Visit: A Nice Place To Visit by Michael Romani Resounding dissonance introduces us to Henry Francis Valentine Hard at … Continue reading
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Tagged A Nice Place To Visit, Afterlife, Crime, Gamble, Heaven, Hell, Justice, Twilight Zone
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Thought For The Day: Free Society Resists Interference With Others
“A society is free when its members resist the tendency to interfere by force with the lives of others. In this kind of society, justice is established as each person is given his clue and no man has a politically … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: A Society Must Be Just and Humane
As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practise or neglect to practise the primary duties of justice and humanity. The free-labor system conforms to the divine law of equality, … Continue reading
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Tagged Communities, Consciences, Context, Equality, Flourish, Free Labor, Humanity, Justice, Prosper, Thought For the Day, William H Seward
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First Principles: On Understanding the Balance Between Liberty and Power
“[I]n the mouths of some [Liberty] means anything, which enervate a necessary government; excite a jealousy of the rulers who are our own choice, and keep society in confusion for want of a power sufficiently concentered to promote good.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged AntiFederalist Papers, Balance, Justice, Landholder, Liberty, Oliver Ellsworth, Power, Supreme Court
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Thought for the Day: Power v. Justice
“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of … Continue reading
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Tagged Georges Beranos, Governing, Injustice, Justice, Powerful, Resistance
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First Principles: Constitutional Law Is A Noble Inheritance
“If these Commentaries shall but inspire in the rising generation a more ardent love of their country, an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the constitution and the union, then they will have accomplished all that their … Continue reading →