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First Principles: Nothing Is More Certain Than That A General Profligacy and Corruption of Manners Make A People Ripe For Destruction

Posted on July 28, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Propagandist’s Purpose Is To Make One Set of People Forget That Certain Other Sets of People Are Human

Posted on July 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” – Aldous Huxley, novelist (26 Jul 1894-1963) Perhaps all of America and the world needs to learn from this that the … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The People Who Get On In This World Are the People Who Get Up and Look For the Circumstances They Want and If They Can’t find them, Make Them

Posted on July 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t … Continue reading →

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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

Posted on July 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“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: People Will Not Look Forward To Posterity, Who Never Look Backward To Their Ancestors

Posted on July 14, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.” – Edmund Burke, in Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Thought For the Day: No Nation Has Done More To Advance the Human Condition Than the United States of America

Posted on July 8, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Key excerpts from President Trump’s Speech at Mt. Rushmore: “No nation has done more to advance the human condition than the United States of America. And no people have done more to promote human progress than the citizens of our … Continue reading →

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Facing Fear Toward Tomorrow

Posted on June 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A review of race history in America is a mix of hope and of fear; rights and wrongs; in short and in truth a mixed story. Today, we confront that which was wrong. Still, we should do so not in … Continue reading →

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First Principles: It Is the Manners and Spirit of A People Which Preserve A Republic In Vigor

Posted on June 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)

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Thought For the Day: It Has Been the Great Tragedy of Our Time That People Were Taught To Read and Not Taught To Reason

Posted on June 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“It has been the great tragedy of our time that people were taught to read and not taught to reason.” – G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

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First Principles: It Is Necessary To Have the Principles of Virtue Early Inculcated On the Minds of Children and Morality Kept Alive

Posted on May 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Since private and publick Vices, are in Reality, though not always apparently, so nearly connected, of how much Importance, how necessary is it, that the utmost Pains be taken by the Publick, to have the Principles of Virtue early inculcated … Continue reading →

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