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Thought For the Day: The Only Foundation For A Useful Education In A Republic Is To Be Laid In Religion. Without This There Can Be No Virtue
“[T]he only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all … Continue reading
First Principles: We Must Not Let Our Rulers Load Us With Perpetual Debt
“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)
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Tagged Economy, Election, First Principles, Liberty, Load, Perpetual Debt, Profusion, Rulers, Servitude, Thomas Jefferson, We
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First Principles: Liberty Is A Word Which, According As It Is Used, Comprehends the Most Good and the Most Evil of Any In the World
“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Appropriate, Choice, Comprehend, Confusion, Divine Adoration, Enervate, First Principiles, Jealousy, Liberty, Most Evil, Most Good, Mouhs of Some, Necessary Government, Oliver Ellsworth, Power, Promote Good, Rulers, Sacred, Society, Used, Word
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First Principles: Justice Is the End of Government. It Is the End of 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 (1788)
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Bounds of Authority, Civil Society, Constitution, End, Exigency, First Principles, Government, Ijury, James Madison, Justice, Justisy, Liberty, Lost, Obtain, Powers, Pursue, Pursuit, Standard, The People, Tyrannical Use
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The Original Wild Child
The Original Wild Childby Michael DoyleOver pizza. we swung from vine to vineThese laughing daughters making the timeTo watch a remake of Tarzan this Saturday nightEach smile a moonbeam of their father’s delightWe talk as we watch Africa’s original feral … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Africa, Argumentation, Behind, Best, Brave, Burroughs, Change, Cheer, Circle, Complicated, Contemplation, Contemptuous, Creativity, Details, Director, Drama, Endless, Expression, Father's Deligh, Father's Delight, Fear, Feral Child, Fierce, Filed, Friendless, Glory, Guard, Heard, Lack of Dignity, Laughing Daughters, Leave, Liberty, Memories, Moonbeam, Nickname, No Matter How Right, Notes, Original, Peace of Mind, Pizza, Poetry and Poems, Reasoning, Regard, Remake, Rules of Civilization, Saturday Night, Slight, Smile, Society, Society's Lions, Story, Tale, Tarzan, The Wild, Thought, Time, Vine To Vine, Waste, Well, Wild Child, Youngest
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First Principles: The Americans Combine the Notions of Christianity and Liberty So Intimately In Their Minds, That It Is Impossible To Make Them Conceive the One Without the Other
“The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Americans, Christianity, Conceive, First Principles, Impossible, Intimately, Liberty, Minds, Notion, One, The Other
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Long Live Freedom
Dedicated and inspired by Argentinian President Milei at Davos: Long Live Freedomby Michael DoyleFreedom is the path to prosperitySocialism, of any kind, leads to povertyThe Western World would be well-advisedTo keep toward liberty, as the best plan devisedAn example can … Continue reading
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Tagged Ailments, Argentina, Better Price, Cake, Capitalism, Collectivism, Contemptuous, Destitution, Economics, Economy, Empirical Observation, Entrepreneur, Example, Extreme Poverty, Free Market Economy, Freedom, GDP, Goods and Services, Help the Poor to Rise, Incentive, Industrial Revolution, Liberty, Long Live, Market Discovery Process, Moral Path, Natural Consequence, Pandmic, Philosophy, Plague, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Poverty, Prosperity, Prosperous, Recompense, Social Justice, Socialism, Solution, Success, The Left, Trust, Unfair, Unjust, Western World, Wise, World Hunger
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Ways of Life Previously Chosen
Ways of Life Previously Chosenby Michael DoyleEating smoked salmon and in contemplationAbout what will be the fate of my nationI will let no untruths be varnished or toldBut insist on telling how history did unfoldI have watched the destruction of … Continue reading
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Tagged 13th Through 15th Amendments, 1860s, 1960s, 40 Acres and A Mule, ACA, Actual History, America, America's Legacy, American Power, American Soul, Aspiration, Assimilation, Bells and Lights, Bill of Goods, Bill of Rights, Black, Blight, Blood and Tears, Brooks, Bureaucracy, Calhoun, Choose, Chosen, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Common Man, Complicit, Contemplation, Credit, Creed, Crockett, Cross Road, Cruelty, Darker Brothers, Deep State, Deliberate Illusion, Delivered, Democratic Republcian, Democratic Standard, Destruction, DNC, Doubling Debt, Douglas, Dredging Up the Truth, Dysfunction, Economical, Election Day, Election Year, End Slavery, Ensure, Equal Opportunity, Equal Rights, Equality, Equity, Equivalency, Extorionate, Fable, Fact, Fair Life, False Flag, Fate, Filibustered, Focus, Freedom, Frelinghuysen, Fringe, Gang, Greenlight, History, Inconvenient, Indian Removal Act, Instill Fear, Islamic Militancy, Jackson, Jefferson, Kleptocracy, Knee, Lands, Lash, Legacy, Liberty, Lies of Equity, Lincoln, Love For the People, Merit, Military, Modern Democrats, Modern History, Nation, Native American, North and South, Not So Distant Past, Obama, Open Opportunity, Opposing Listeners, Pathway, Permanent, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Price Paid, Priority, Profit, Promises, Racism, Real Fight, Real History, Recalled, Republican, Restore, Right To Vote, Rule of Law, Sexual Plunder, Shackled, Shivered, Slavery, Sleight of Hand, Smoked Salmon, Social Justice, Stand Up In the Front, Steeple, Stumble, Suffragettes, Supreme Court, Sword, Tainted Legacy, Taught, The Hermitage, Theft, Tocquieveille, Told, Trading Lives, Trail of Tears, Understood, Unfold, Untruth, Varnish, Vehement, Votes Are Cast, War, Ways of Life, Whip, White, White House, Women, Worth
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First Principles: Systems of Education Should Be Adopted…Which…Implant…the Principles of Virtue and of Liberty
“It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue … Continue reading
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Tagged Adopted, American Youth, Atachment, Country, Diffuse, First Principles, Government, Inspire, Just and Liberal Ideas, Liberty, Minds, Noah Webster, Object, Principles, Sciences, Systems of Education, Virtue
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First Principles: God Who Gave Us Life Gave Us Liberty. And Can the Liberties of A Nation Be Thought Secure When We Have Removed Their Only Firm Basis…?
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. 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 of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Conviction, Country, Firm Basis, First Principles, Forever, Gift of God, God, Justice, Liberty, Life, Minds, Nation, Remove, Secure, Sleep, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble, Violate, Wrath
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 