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First Principles: The Right of the Citizens To Keep and Bear Arms Has Justly Been Considered, As the Palladium of the Liberties of A Republic
“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will … Continue reading
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Tagged Arbitrary Power, Citizens, Consider, First Principles, Joseph Story, Keep and Bear Arms, Liberties, Moral Check, Palladium, Republic, Resist, Right, Rulers, Successful, The People, Triumph, Usurption
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First Principles: Can the Liberties of A Nation Be Thought Secure When We Have Removed Their Only Firm Basis, A Conviction…That These Liberties Are the Gift of God?
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Conviction, Firm Basis, First Principles, Gift of God, Liberties, Minds, Nation, Remove, The People, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Of Those Men Who Have Over Turned the Liberties of Republics, the Greatest Number Have Begun Their Career By Paying…Court To the People…and Ending Tyrants
“Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.” -Alexander Hamilton (1787)
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Career, Court, Demagogues, Ending, First Principles, Greatest Number, Liberties, Men, Overturn, Republics, Tyrants
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First Principles: No People Will Tamely Surrender Their Liberties, Nor Can Any Be Easily Subdued, When Knowledge is Diffused and Virtue Is Preserved
“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own … Continue reading
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Tagged Aid, Diffused, First Principles, Foreign Invaders, James Warren, Knowledge, Liberties, manners, No People, Own Weight, Preserved, Samuel Adams, Sink, Subdued, Surrender, Universally Ignorant, Virtue
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First Principles: The Liberties of Our Country, the Freedom of Our Civil Constitution, Are Worth Defending Against All Hazards. And It Is Our Duty To Defend Them
“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.” – Samuel Adams, Essay, written under the pseudonym “Candidus,” in The Boston … Continue reading
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Tagged Candidus, Civil Consitution, Country, Defend, Duty, First Principles, Freedom, Hazards, Liberties, Life, Public Service, Samuel Adams, The Boston Gazette
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First Principles: The Liberties of A People Depend On Their Own Constant Attention To Its Preservation
“The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.”
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Tagged Attention, Constant, First Principles, Liberties, People, Preservation, Their, William Henry Harrison
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First Principles: A General Dissolution of Principles and Manners Will More Surely Overthrow the Liberties of America Than the Whole Force of the Common Enemy
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then … Continue reading
First Principles: I Tremble For My Country When I Reflect That God Is Just; That His Justice Cannot Sleep Forever
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Basis, Conviction, Country, First Principles, Forever, Gift, God, Just, Justice, Liberties, Minds, Nation, Notes On the State of Virginia, Reflect, Remove, Secure, Sleep, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble, Violate, Wrath
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Thought For the Day: The Real Destroyer of the Liberties of the People Is He Who Spread Among Them Bounties, Donations, and Benefits
“The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.” – -Greek Historian Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
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Tagged Benefits, Bounties, Destroyer, Donations, Liberties, Spread, The People, Thomas Sowell, Thought For the Day
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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 Partial Or Extraneous Should Infect the Purity of Our Free…Elections
“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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Tagged Danger, Elections, Fair, First Principles, Free, Independent, Infect, John Adams, Liberties, Lose Sight, Ourselves, Partial or Extraneous, Purity, Unfaithful, Vrituous
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