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First Principles: Educate and Inform the Whole Mass of the People. Enable Them To See That It Is Their Interest To Preserve Peace and Order and They Will Preserve Them
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.” -Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: Peace On Earth Will Come To Stay, When We Live Christmas Every Day
“Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.” – Helen Steiner Rice
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Tagged Christmas, Earth, Every Day, Helen Steiner Rice, Live, Peace, Stay, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Observe Good Faith and Justice Towards All Nations. Cultivate Peace and Harmony With All
“Observe good faith and justice towards all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.” – George Washington
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Thought For the Day: It Is Easier To Lead Men To Combat, Stirring Up Their Passion, Than To Restrain Them and Direct Them Toward the Patient Labors of Peace
“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.” – Andre Gide, author, Nobel laureate (1869-1951)
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Thought For the Day: God Can’t Give Us Peace and Happiness Apart From Himself Because There Is No Such Thing
“God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.” – C.S.Lewis
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Tagged Apart, Because, C.S. Lewis, Cannot, Give, God, Happiness, Peace, There Is No Such Thing, Thought For the Day, Us
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In Reverence For Life
In Reverence For Lifeby Michael DoyleFrom out of his humble life and thoughtA reverence for all life was truly soughtDoing his duty to a higher authoritySeeking the best for all of sacred humanityThe human spirit displayed at its bestWhen it … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Adversity, Albert Schweitzer, All of Life, All Things Have A Purpose, Approach, Awe, Bach, Betrayal, Big Business, Church, Civilization, Complete Obedience, Cultivation, Death, Deference, Devastation, Discern, Distinct, Divine, Duty, End of Days, Eschatology, Fails, Familiar, Free Conscience, French, Future, Gentleman, German, Global Security, Golden Rule, Heed, Higher Authority, History, Human Spirit, Humanity, Humble, International Friendship Day, Jesus, Life, Love, Mankind, Material Prosperity, Medical Missionary, Music, Need, Nuclear Blast, Nuclear Bomb, Overpowering, Peace, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Promises of Prosperity, Recall, Respect, Reverence, Right, Right Intention, Sacred, Savage War, Scholar, Seek, Tears, Technology, Test, Theology, Thought, Tremble, True Divinity, Vanity, War's End, World War I, World War Two
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In His Blessing
In His Blessingby Michael DoyleKnowing the path of GodAnd finding in it stillnessIn times, it is so oddThere is a thrill in thisWalking from the darkness into lightInto the daylight from the nightWatching every move madeMy strength of faith will … Continue reading
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Tagged All Things, Blessing, Bring, Conceivable, Darkness, Daylight, Declaration, Deliver, Everything, Fade, Faith, Far, Feeling, Find, Firmament, From Below, Gaze, God, Grace, His, Light, Love, Move, Night, Odd, Path, Peace, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Possible, Power, Presence, Promise, Providence, Refuge, Safe, Seen, Sense, Stars, Stillness, Strength, Surrender, Thrill, Times, True Inspiration, Walk, Watch
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The Chicago Seven and Liberty
The Chicago Seven and Libertyby Michael DoyleThe American soul was in desperate measurePoisoned and depleted of blood and lost treasureFor the sake of a war that people didn’t understandOur republic’s principles died for in a foreign landThe Vietnam draft and … Continue reading
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Tagged America, American Pride, American Soul, Audience, Blood, Bobby Seale, Breakdown, Brew, Certainty, Chicago Seven, Chicken Foot, Content, Crossing the Line, Damage, Dead, Democratic Convention, Depleted, Desperate Measure, Determine, Die, Done, Draft, Dream, Enormously, Fateful Day, First Amendment, Foreign Land, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech and Thought, Grown Up Values, Heart, Ill Intent, Incite, Irate, Issue, Land of Liberty, Lawless, Liberty, Life, Little Doubt, Little To Be Won, Martin Luther King Jr., Matters, Minds, National Security, Non-Coformity, Overnight Bag, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Poisoned, Police State, Pressure Cooker, Principles, Protest, Question, Rebels, Relent, Relevance, Restless Mind, Rise, Say, Serious, Significant, Society, Some Times, Stage, State Lines, Steeple, Storm, Strife, Stupor, Temperature, The American People, The Left, Threat, Treasure, Truth, Truth On Both Sides, Unambiguous, Understand, Vietnam, Violence, Voice, War, Watch, Wonder, World
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Things Remembered
Things Rememberedby Michael DoyleDespite the well of star-crossed tearsHaving had been ponded through the yearsOf one thing, I have certainly foundThat there are enough words to be chased aroundOne thing proven is the swollen sure chanceInvolved in each moment lived … Continue reading
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Tagged Afflict, Bad Memories, Bleak, Breakdown, Campfire, Chase Around, Circumstance, Confluence, Crackle, Disease, Drama, Dread, Experience, Extended Family, Found, Honesty, Hope, Incidences, Influence, Journey, Lamentations, Lord, Minds, Moment, Mortality, Negativity, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Ponded, Presence, PTSD, Questions, Racism, Rage, Reflections, Sentimentality, Star-Crossed, Suffer, Suffering, Sure Chance, Tears, Things Remembered, Transparent, Trauma, Triggered, Unspeakable, Walk, Well, Words, Wrap, Years
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From Condemnation To Redemption
Based in part on Romans 8: From Condemnation To Redemption by Michael Doyle In Christ Jesus There is no condemnation The blessings of Jesus Bring our firm redemption Whatever the struggles had The storms pass in safety Finding joy even … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Belong, Betrayal, Blessings, Cherish, Christ, Christ Jesus, Condemnation, Contemplation, Deep, Depravity, Deserved Share, Divine Love, Do Right, Firm, God's Love, God's Path, Had, Harbor, His Light, Jesus, Joy, Judas Kiss, Know, Life, Mercy, Misery, Pass, Peace, Perish, Photorgraph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pure, Purity, Receive, Redemption, Romans, Sad, Salvation, Security, Set Free, Share, Sinful World, Sins, Storms, Strong, Struggles, The Lord, Truth, Victory, Walk, Words, Wrongs
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