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First Principles: Commercial Policy Should Hold and Equal and Impartial Hand: Neither Seeking Nor Granting Exclusive Favours or Preferences
“Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing … Continue reading
Lapsed Into Vulnerability
Lapsed Into Vulnerabilityby Michael DoyleFor most of my life, it’s been grasp and capabilityNow we’ve followed the Silent Generation into vulnerability. Our straightforward path toward security and prosperityLent itself to jaded jokes that were mostly others’ jealousy.The sky was the … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurdity, Age of Austerity, Boomer Generation, Capability, Confident, Easy Stride, Free Ride, Future, Grasp, Imagination, Innovation, Jaded Jokes, Jagged Edges, Jealousy, Jeopardy, Lapse, Life, Nurture, Our Share, Poetry and Poems, Policy, Poverty, Relaxed Feeling, Silent Generation, Social Security, Spending Hawks, Vulnerability
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Thought For the Day: Appeasement Is the Policy of Feeding Your Friends To A Crocodile, One At A Time, In Hopes That the Crocodile Will Eat You Last
“‘Appeasement’ is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Tagged Appeasement, Crocodile, Feed, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Friends, Hope, Last, Policy, Thought For the Day, Time
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First Principles: An Equal Dispensation of Protection, Rights, Privileges, and Advantages, Is What Every Part Is Entitled To, and Ought To Enjoy
“The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part … Continue reading
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Tagged Advantages, Benjamin Franklin, Enjoy, Equal Dispnsation, First Principles, Law, Nation, Part, Policy, Privileges, Protection, Rights
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First Principles: If the Policy of the Government Upon Vital Questions Affecting the Whole People Is To Be Irrevocably Fixed By Decisions of the Supreme Court…The People Will Have Ceased To Be Their Own Rulers
“[I]f the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court…the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Affect, Cease, Decision, First Principles, Fixed, Government, Hands, Policy, Resign, Rulers, Supreme Court, The People, Tribunal, Whole People
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Orphan Bachelors
Orphan Bachelorsby Michael DoyleSelf-expression has become democratizedIn an era where everyone is traumatizedThe Asian experience is best understoodBy taking in the feelings, both bad and goodHowever minor these seem in their unfoldingThere’s nothing said that requires scoldingIt needs a historical … Continue reading
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Tagged Adversity, Alienation, America, American Family, Analyzation, Arguments and Resentments, Asian Experience, Ask, Assimilation, Balanced Devotion, Bloodless Crime, Burden, Chinese Families, Complete, Conflicting American Ideals, Confusion, Conversation, Dedication, Democratized, Dreams, Era, Exclusion, Eyes, Fabric, Feelings, Formation, Four Generations, Fraught, Generation, Generations, Hard Facts, Historical Legacy, Identity, Immigrant's Song, Impossible Task, In Depth Truth, Inheritance, Inspiriation, Language, Lasting Sorrow, Limits of Inclusion, Loneliness, Lore, Marginalization, Minor, Nation, Old Sojourners, Orphan Bachelors, Pain, Paper Sons, Passed-Through Experience, Poetry and Poems, Policy, Promise, Purpose, Quality, Question, Scold, Self Expression, Story, Storyteller's Delusion, STuck, Tension, Tomorrow, Tragedy, Transparent, Trauma, Truth, Truth-Telling, Unborn, Understood, Unfolding
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First Principles: There Exists In the Economy and the Course of Nature, An Indissoluble Union Between Virtue and Happiness…and the Solid Rewards of Public Prosperity and Felicity
“There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Advantage, Course of Nature, Duty, Economy, Exist, Felicity, First Principles, George Washington, Happiness, Honest, Indissoluble, Magnanimous, Maxims, Policy, Public Prosperity, Reward, Union, Virtue
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First Principles: The Ordaining of Laws In Favor of One Part of the Nation, To the Prejudice and Oppression of Another, Is Certainly the Most Erroneous and Mistaken Policy
“The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part … Continue reading
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Tagged Advantages, Benjamin Franklin, Enjoy, Entitle, Equal Dispensation, Favor, First Principles, Law, Nation, Ordain, Part, Policy, Prejudice and Oppression, Privileges, Protection, Rights
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