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First Principles: Neither the Wisest Constitution Nor the Wisest Laws Will Secure the Liberty and Happiness of A People Whose Manners Are Universally Corrupt
“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.” – Samuel Adams (1749)
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First Principles: Our Liberty Depends On Our Education, Our Laws, and Habits…It Is Founded On Morals and Religion Whose Authority Reigns In the Heart
“Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs … Continue reading
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Tagged Authority, Education, First Principles, Fisher Ames, Founded, Govern, Habit, Heart, Influence, Law, Liberty, Morals, Public Opinion, Reign, Religion, Rulers
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First Principles: The God Who Gave Us Life Gave Us Liberty At the Same Time; the Hand of Force May Destroy, But Cannot Disjoin Them
“The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” – Thomas Jefferson (1774)
Nat Turner’s Legacy
Nat Turner’s Legacyby Michael DoyleExceptions seldom make the ruleFoolish thinkers need their schoolThose who dwell on the mysteryOf why so few rose against slaveryIt is a cowardice of cultureThat we cannot afford to nurtureLet’s recall a moment of historyLived by … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, American History, Asunder, Blood and Brutality, Civil War, Country, Cowardice of Culture, Criticism, Death, Destiny, Dignity, Easy Lesson, Education, Equal Opportunity, Exceptions, Experiment, Field, Fight, Foolish Thinkers, Freedom and Liberty, God and Science, Greatest Republic, Hard Road, History, Incendiary, Inspiration, Ironic, Legacy, Liberty, Luxury, Mystery, Nat Turner, Ntion, Nurture, Optimism, Path Forward, Pessimism, Poetry and Poems, Poverty, Promise, Prophecy, Rage, Re;public, Revelation, Revolution, Right, Satisfaction, School, Scourge, Sinners, Slavery, Soul, The Rule, Theology, Victory, Vision, Voice, Wickedness Revealed
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First Principles: Arbitrary Power Is Most Easily Established On the Ruins of Liberty Abused To Licentiousness
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.” – George Washington (1753)
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Tagged Abuse, Arbitrary Power, Established, First Principles, George Washington, Liberty, Licentiousness, Ruins
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First Principles: Whoever Would Overthrow the Liberty of A Nation Must Begin By Subduing the Freedom of Speech
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” – Benjamin Franklin
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Owed To America 2024
Owed To America 2024by Michael DoyleMy daughters ask me why is it you cryI think back on history and will not lieToo many brave souls have fought and diedFor us not to have mourned and criedThere was a time when … Continue reading
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Tagged Ages, America, American Nation, Battle, Belief, Believe, Bend Their Knees, Bleed, Blue, Brave, Brave Souls, Cause, Ceaseless, Color, Courage, Cried, Cry, Danger, Daughters, Dedication, Defeat, Despotic Crown, Died, Fear, Fight, Fire, Fought, Freedom, Good, History, Hope, Ill, Imagination, Inspiration, Inspire, Internal Eney, Judgment Day, Justice, Kind, Land, Liberty, Lie, Love, Measure, More, Mourn, Nation, Owed To America 2024, Passing Years, People, Photography, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Red, Rights, Road, Save, Spark, Stand, Stand Tall, Street, Strength, Sweet Land, This Land, Time, Travel, Unbeatable, Values, White
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First Principles: Let Every Nation Know, Whether It Wishes Us Well Or Ill, We Shall Pay Any Price, Bear Any Burden, Meet Any Hardship, Support Any Friend, Oppose Any Foe, To Assure the Survival…of Liberty
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.” – John F. Kennedy
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Tagged Burden, Every Nation, First Principles, Foe, Friend, Hardship, John F. Kennedy, Know, Liberty, Pay, Price, Success, Survival, Well Or Ill, Wish
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First Principles: Let the American Youth Never Forget, That They Possess A Noble Inheritance, Bought By the Toils, and Sufferings and Blood of Their Ancestors
“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial … Continue reading
Scargiver’s Fight
Scargiver’s Fightby Michael DoyleTo fight and then to live to fightEven while knowing we cannot winTo hold pride in the battleEven though knowing pride is a sinThis is the way of warriorsWilling to bear the costEven while knowing the truthHonor … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle, Cause, Children, Choose, Cost, Die, Dignity, Fight, Firm, Freedom, Full Cost, Future, Goodness, Hold, Honor, Knights of Old, Know, Law, Liberty, Light, Lost, Measure, Nobility, Own, Place of Respect, Poetry and Poems, Price, Pride, Reasons, Sacrifice, Scargiver, Seasons, Sin, Sustain, Tales of Old, Told, Treason, Truth, Way of Warriors, Win, Win Or Die, Wlling
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