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First Principles: Seek To Friend A Righteous Government; Be An Enemy To Tyranny
“Some boast of being friends to government; I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice; but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.” John Hancock, in … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Massacre, Enemy, Enmity, First Principles, Friend, John Hancock, Justice, Oration, Principles, Reason, Righteous Government, Tryanny
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Qur’an – The Medina Suras
Mohammed arrived at Kuba after “The Flight” on September 20, 622. Although not my faith, it is important that we understand the beliefs of others. This particular part of the Qur’an, the al-Nisa has a few themes in which we … Continue reading
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Tagged al-Nisa, Harvard Classics, Hypocrisy, Islam, Justice, Muhammed, Obligations, Peace, The Medina Suras, The Qur'an, The Woman Chapter, War
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A Kind of Sonnet of Blindness
A Kind of Sonnet of Blindness by Michael Romani Observed as an adage calling for an eye for eye It’s the way of the world until this world is blind You may think this as justice, but I – I … Continue reading
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Tagged Blindness, Eye For An Eye, Justice, Peace, Poem, Poetry, Sonnet, Switch, War
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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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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 →