Tag Archives: Liberty

First Principles: It Is Better To Die Free Than Live As Slaves

Posted on September 3, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: There Cannot Be Too Much Liberty

Posted on August 30, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.”  — Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)

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Thought For the Day: Socialism Is Legal Plunder

Posted on August 19, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Better Too Much Liberty Than Too Little

Posted on July 26, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” — Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Archibald Stuart – 1791)

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First Principles: Subduing Free Speech Begins the Overthrow of Liberty

Posted on July 17, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”  –  Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood, The Busy Body and Early Writings        

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Happy Bastille Day!

Posted on July 14, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

In remembrance of the assistance France gave to the United States in securing our freedom and that we have been allies and friends since then, I wish the people of France and the lovers and admirers of France, a… Saluting … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Person’s Home Is Their Castle

Posted on July 7, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house. A man’s house is his castle.”–  James Otis, On the Writs of Assistance (1761)

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First Principles: All Are Created Equal With Inalienable Rights

Posted on July 4, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”   – Thomas Jefferson Time … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Liberty Is Rightfully Constrained By the Rights of Others

Posted on July 2, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“… (R)ightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our own will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, … Continue reading →

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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: On Liberty – John S. Mill

Posted on June 30, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

It seems appropriate that as the Fourth of July approaches in the United States that we examine On Liberty.  This is one of the guiding lights of my nation and useful in understanding our noble experiment.  All of our glories and … Continue reading →

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