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First Principles: Our Leaders Should Possess Distinguished Character
“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.” – Samuel Adams (1775)
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First Principles: Honest Persons Feel No Pleasure Over Controlling Fellow Citizens
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.” – Thomas Jefferson (1813)
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Thought For the Day: You Don’t Get Harmony When Everyone Sings the Same Note
“You don’t get harmony when everyone sings the same note.” – Anonymous but possibly Doug Floyd
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First Principles: To Be Respected and Trusted, We Must Keep Our Agreements
“States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.” – Alexander Hamilton (1790)
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First Principles: We Must Be Careful of the Ability of the Press To Stoke the Fires of Resentment and Revenge
“As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most temperate freedom of the press, soon excite resentment and revenge.” – John Adams, Discourses on … Continue reading
First Principles: To All Persons – Exact and Equal Justice
“It is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government… Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever persuasion, religious or political.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)
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Thought For the Day: All Great People Eradicate Hypocrisy From Their Hearts
“The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.” – Anatole France
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