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First Principles: It Will Not Be Denied That Power Is Of An Encroaching Nature and That It Ought To Be Effectually Restrained From Passing the Limits Assigned It
“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.” – James Madison (1788), in Federalist Paper No. 48
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Tagged Assign, Denied, Encroaching Nature, First Principles, James Madison, Limits, Pass, Power, Restrain
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Thought For the Day: Human Greatness Does Not Lie In Wealth or Power, But In Character and Goodness
“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.” – Anne Frank
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Tagged Anne Frank, Character, Goodness, Human Greatness, Power, Thought For the Day, Wealth
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Joyful Contemplation
Joyful Contemplationby Michael DoyleLooking back on times I’ve hadI rejoice and find myself gladI’m certain of things I believeAnd I stand ready to receiveKnowing that God is wise and strongAnd I am often weak and often wrongI bless God’s name … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Certain, Contemplation, Days, Embrace, Glad, God, God's Name, Holy S;piirt, Joy, Joyful, Know, Looking Back, Mortal Limits, Place, Poetry and Poems, Power, Praise, Receive, Rejoice, The Lord, Times, Weak and Often Wrong, Wise and Strong
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First Principles: All See, and Most Admire, the Glare Which Hovers Round the External Trappings of Elevated Office…To Me There Is Nothing In It , Beyond…Its Connection With A Power of Promoting Human Felicity
“All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Connection, Elevated Office, External Trappings, First Principles, George Washington, Glare, Human Felicity, Lustre, Nothing In It, Power, Promote, Reflect
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First Principles: Where An Excess of Power Prevails, Property of No Sort Is Duly Respect. No Man Is Safe In His Opinion, …Person,…Faculties… Or His Possessions
“As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is … Continue reading
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Tagged Excess, Faculties, First Principles, James Madison, Man, Opinion, Person, Possession, Power, Prevail, Property, Respect, Right, Rights, Safe
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From the Shadows, Grows the Light
From the Shadows, Grows the Lightby Michael DoyleEmerging from the shadows,There is one thing that I knowGod keeps promises despite disruptionHe’ll bring an end to all corruptionThis is the path for all eternityThe house of the worthy worships His deityWith … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Beautiful, Blessed Name, Burn, Corruption, Deity, Disruption, Done, Emerge, End, Eternity, Evertything, Flame, God, Grow, Heart, House, Know, Light, Path, Poetry and Poems, Power, Promises, Right Intention, Shadow, Son, Trust, Wonderful, Worship, Worthy
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In Us and Through Us
In Us and Through Usby Michael DoylePrayerful in all that truly mattersOur God prepares us for when peace shattersWe know that God has intentional plansAs the world unfolds and God stymies even as He canThere on the inspired pages of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, Christianity, Commitments, Community, Condition, Daily Bread, Daily Ways, Desolation, Disciple, Fail, Faith, False Leaders, Fate, Feed, God, Hate, Hesitation, Holy Bible, Humility, In Us, Inspired, Intentional Plans, Invitation, Jealous, Jesus, Learn, Masses, Matters, Omniscient, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Power, Prayerful, Presence, Prevail, Savior, Shatter, Step, Study, Through Us, Unfold, Wages of Sin, Walk, Working Together, World
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Thought For the Day: A Cynical, Mercenary, Demagogic Press Will Produce In Time A People As Base As Itself. The Power To Mould the Future of the Republic Will Be In the Hands of the Journalists of Future Generations
“Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and … Continue reading
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Tagged Base, Cynical, Demagogic, Future, Future Generations, Hnads, Joseph Pulitzer, Journalists, Mockery, Our Republic, People, Popular Government, Power, Preserve, Press, Public Virtue, Public-Spirted, Rise or Fall, Sham, The Republic, Thought For the Day, Together
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First Principles: For the Spirit God Gave Us Does Not Make Us Timid, But Gives Us Power, Love and Self-Discipline. So Do Not Be Ashamed of the Testimony
“For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline. 8 So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather, join with me in … Continue reading
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Tagged 2 Timothy 1:7-8 (NIV), Ashame, First Principles, God, Gospel, Join, Love, Our Lord, Power, Power of God, Self-Discipline, Spirit, Suffer, Testimony, Timid
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First Principles: Remember, Democracy Never Lasts Long, It Soon Wastes, Exhausts, and Murders Itself. There Never Was A Democracy Yet That Did Not Commit Suicide
“I might have exhibited as many millions of plebeians sacrificed by the pride, folly, and ambition of their fellow-plebeians and their own, in proportion to the extent and duration of their power. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, … Continue reading
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Tagged Clear Prospects, Commit Suicide, Conscientious Moralists, Cruelty, Democracy, Effects, Exhaust, First Principles, Forms, Fraud, Gratification, John Adams, Long, Murder, Passions, Philosophers, Plebians, Power, Proportion, Remember, Resist, Simple Government, Temptation, Violence, Waste
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