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First Principles: The Best Legislation Comes From Methodical Deliberation and Resolve
“Men, to act with vigor and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears … Continue reading
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Tagged Application, Conclusions, Deliberation, Effect, First Principles, Joseph Story, Mankind, Methodical, Reasoned, Resolve, Vigor
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First Principles: Reason Is the Guard Against Humanity’s Absurdities
“Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the spot of every wind. With such persons, gullability, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurd, First Principles, Guard, Mankind, Reason, Rudder, Ship, Surrender, Thomas Jefferson, Wreck
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Lasting Changes
Based in part on Hebrews 12:1: Lasting Changes by Michael Romani Lasting change can be elusive Burdens are felt so intrusive It seems that in our gut We get stuck in a rut It’s a fatalistic mentality That feeds our mortality … Continue reading
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Tagged Burden, Change, Christ, Drive, Effort, Elusive, Faith, Fake It, Fatalistic, Foward, Hebrews, Key, Living Testimony, Make It, Mankind, Mercy, Mortality, Persistance, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pressing On, Push, Relief, Resistance, Responsibility, Rut, Servant, Unworthy, Victory
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Daily Prompt – Ripples
Mother Ocean lives out her stories Filled with enough of her own glories Washed ashore on ripples of her power Mankind’s presence felt like seconds to her hour It’s said that most of this world is water Making humanity the … Continue reading
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Tagged Consequence, Daily Prompt, Fear, Glory, Goodness, Home, Mankind, Mother Ocean, Ripples, Sons and Daughters, Story, Sublime, Time, Water, World
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Daily Prompt – Declaration
Among the truths that remain self evident There is especially on that is quite relevant When so many declare God’s death so openly They so at great peril for our republican society For if there is no God on which … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Society, Daily Prompt, Dead, Declaration, God, Good Intentions, Hearts, Mankind, Peril, Regime, Relevant, Reliance, Republican, Rights, Sacred, Self-Evident, Society, Truth
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Daily Prompt – Iron
The whispered rumor says the ways of humanity Rest on gold, silver, iron and a heated vanity Doing onto others has become the golden rule Serving takes strength, not the rage of fools This sense of sacred teases in its … Continue reading
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Tagged Appellation, Cain, Commision, Daily Prompt, Darwin, Goats, Gold, Humanity, Insanity, Iron, Mankind, Might Makes Right, Misguided, Nations, Omission, Path, Rage, Rumor, Service, Silver, Tarnish, Vanity, Whisper
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First Principles: If Mankind Were Angels, There Would Be No Need For Government
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” – James Madison
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Tagged Angels, Control, Federalist Papers, First Principles, Governance, Government, James Madison, Mankind, Necessity
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First Principles: Every Sensible Person Chooses Liberty
“No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.” – Alexander Hamilton (1774)
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Choice, First Principles, Free, Hesitation, Mankind, Sanity, Slavery
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First Principles: Reason Is the Guard Against Absurdities
“Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurd, Faith, First Principles, Guard, Gullibility, Helm, Mankind, Mind, Reason, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: The Happiness and Dignity of Mankind Consists In Virtue
“[T]he happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.” – John Adams (1776)
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Tagged Dignity, First Principles, Happiness, John Adams, Mankind, Virtue
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