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A Star Wars Lesson In Liberty
May 4th has become, for some, a day of tribute to Star Wars as “May the 4th Be With You” day. When the day passed recently, it gave me some cause to think about how we around the planet … Continue reading
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On the 1619 Project
An ahistorical work that seeks to repudiate the founding principles of America won the Pulitzer Prize today. In my eyes, all luster is now gone to both the Nobel prizes and the Pulitzer with this move. It’s not … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahistorical, Alienation, All Against All, Allege, America, American History, Arbitrary, Assert, Attempt, Balkanization, Bill of Goods, Capricious, Compromise, Conceived, Consideration, Constitutional Convention, Content, Core, Curriculum, Declaration of Independence, Democracy, Discern, Division, Do Away, Enough, Equal Under Law, Fabric, Fairy Tales, False, Fiction, Founding Principles, Good, Grapple, Group Rights, Groups, History, Hit Piece, Identity Politics, Ill-Liberal, Ill-Liberalism, Illiteracy, Individuals, Integrity, Intent, Invention, Issue, Journalists, Lack, Legitimacy, Liar's Club, Liberty, Loud, Love, Meander, Mentality, Miscreants, Mob Rule, Nation, Nonsense, Notes, Oversold, Overtern, Photograph, Pluralism, Poem, Poetry, Principles, Privilege, Promise, Propaganda, Proposition, Public Good, Pulitzer Prize, Purpose, Real, Repubican Values, Repudiation, Repudicate, Reveal, Right Path, Said, Sake, Self Loathing, Self-Serving, Sincere, Social Justice, Socialists, Struggle, The 1619 Project, Told, Tool, Toxic, Trotskyite, True, Truth, Tryanny, Unalienable Rights, Unity, Untrue, Value, Victimhood, Virtue Signaling, Want, Won't Do, Wrong Minded
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First Principles: Justice Is the End of Government and Civil Society
“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.” – James Madison, in The Federalist Papers, … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Society, End, Federalist Papers, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Justice, Liberty, Lost, Obtain, Pursue, Pursuit
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First Principles: A Militia When Properly Formed Are In Fact the People Themselves
“A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselves… and include all men capable of bearing arms. . . To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms.” – Richard Henry Lee, … Continue reading
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Tagged All Mankind, Arms, Capable, Essential, First Principles, Liberty, Militia, Possess, Properly Formed, Richard Henry Lee, The People, Whole Body
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First Principles: A Love of Truth and A Veneration of Virtue Are the Latent Spark For People Capable of Understanding
“Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the “latent spark”… If … Continue reading
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Tagged Advocate, Amiable Passions, Apply, Difference, Feel, First Principles, Friends of Mankind, Human Nature, Indignation, Injury, John Adams, Latent Spark, Liberty, Love, Novanglus, Prinicple, Resentment, Right and Wrong, See, Sense, The People, True and False, Truth, Understanding, Veneration, Virtue, Virtue and Vice, Wrong
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First Principles: Liberty, Once Lost, Is Lost Forever
“But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” – John Adams
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Tagged Change, Constitution, First Principles, Forever, Freedom, Government, John Adams, Liberty, Lost, Restore
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First Principles: A Primary Object Should Be the Education of Our Youth In the Science of Government
“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing… than … communicating it to those who are to … Continue reading
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Tagged Communicate, Country, Duty, Education, First Principles, Future Guardians, George Washington, Government, Important, Knowledge, Liberty, Pressing, Primary Object, Republic, Science, Youth
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First Principles: The Liberty Enjoyed By the People of Worshipping God To Their Conscience Is Among the Choices of Their Blessings
“The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreeably to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.” – George Washington
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Tagged Blessing, Choice, Conscience, Enjoy, First Principles, George Washington, God, Liberty, Right, States, The People, Worship
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 