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First Principles: The Extravagant Expenditure of Public Money Is An Evil Not To Be Measured By the Value of That Money To the People Who Are Taxed For It
“The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.” – Chester A. Arthur The thing is that as far back as we … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Circulation of Confidence Is Better Than the Circulation of Money
“The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.” – James Madison (See, Judicial Powers of the National Government, [20 June] 1788)
First Principles: There Is No Art Which Government Sooner Learns of Another Than That of Draining Money From the Pockets of the People
“There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.” – Adam Smith
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First Principles: Never Suppose That In Any Possible Situation Or Under Any Circumstances, It is Best For You To Do A Dishonorable Thing, However Slightly
“Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you … Continue reading
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Losing Light
Losing Lightby Michael DoyleIn modern life’s twistWhere nothing is missedWe earn by the momentFelt in every tormentExposing our inner soulTo continuously extolThat which wins the moneyFalse tears seem funnyReborn into a hard day’s nightIt’s the hurt exposed to lightWhen forced … Continue reading
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Tagged Earn, Expose, Extol, False Tears, Felt, Hurt, Inner Soul, Losing Light, Modern Life, Moment, Money, Poetry and Poems, Reborn, Speak, Torment, Twist
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Shifting Through the Ashes
Shifting Through the Ashesby Michael DoyleStanding here talking close togetherYou say it’s for worse or for betterShifting through the ashes of an argumentCan you tell me, baby, where the money’s spent?You laugh and concede it as a steady needWaiting for … Continue reading
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Tagged Above the Skies, Alone, Angels of Fortune, Ashes, Ashes of An Argument, Beauty, Better, Bitterness, Child, Child of the sun, Collide, Conceal, Concede, Connect, Constellations, Danger, Doom, Drink, Echo, Emptiness, Eyes, Falling Stars, False Idol, Fascination, Fire's Glow, Follow, Games, God of Wishful Thinking, Gorgeous, Guess, Hand, Held, Her Man, Hide, Ignore, In the End, Inside, Joy For Life, Laugh, Lies, Likes To Look Good, Lips, Long, Love, Money, Need, Nexus, Pleasd, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Pride, Ramble, Shadow, Shift, Stand, Star Maps, Stranger's Room, Talk, Together, Too Late, Trick, Truth, Two, Woman, Worse
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First Principles: I Cannot Undertake To Lay My Finger On That Article of the Constitution Which Granted A Right To Congress of Expending, On Objects of Benevolence, the Money of Their Constituents
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” – James Madison
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First Principles: In the Last Days There Will Come Times of Difficulty. For People Will Be Lovers of…Pleasure Rather Than Lovers of God…Avoid Such People
“Understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: You Have Reached the Pinnacle of Success As Soon As You Become Uninterested In Money, Compliments, or Publicity
“You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.” – Thomas Wolfe
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First Principles: The Same Prudence Which In Private Life Would Forbid Our Paying Our Own Money For Unexplained Projects, Forbids It In the Dispensation of the Public Moneys
“The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.” – Thomas Jefferson (1808)
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