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First Principles: To Preserve Liberty, It Is Essential That the Whole Body of the People Always Possess Arms, and Be Taught Alike, Especially When Young, How To Use Them
“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.” – Federal Farmer (1787)
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Tagged Essential, Federal Farmer, First Principles, Liberty, Possess Arms, Preserve, Richard Henry Lee, Taught, The People, Use, Whole Body, Young
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Trees Are Overrated
Trees Are Overrated by Michael DoyleSpeaking of paradigms outdatedIt turns out trees are overratedThis thought comes I am knee-deepIn a prairie’s secrets to keepIn the verdant landscape, songbirds singProviding a soundtrack to the blessed thingsDancing blue granma and sand dropseedTrace … Continue reading
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Tagged Aboreal, Decline, Forest Floor, Grass People, Homo Sapiens, Knee-Deep, Outdated, Overrated, Paradigms, Poetry and Poems, Prairie, Prairie Dogs, Preserve, Protection, Savanna, Secret, Shoots, Sign, Soil, Songbirds, Soundtrack, Steeple, Toil, Trees, Tug-of-War, Tyranny, Velds
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First Principles: Guard With Jealous Attention the Public Liberty. Suspect Every One Who Approaches That Jewel.
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” – Patrick Henry (1788)
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Tagged Attention, Downright Force, First Principles, Give Up That Force, Guard, Jewel, Patrick Henry, Preserve, Public Liberty, Ruined, Suspect
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First Principles: To Maintain the Ascendancy of the Constitution Over the Lawmaking Majority Is the Great and Essential Point On Which the Success of the American System Must Depend
“To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the … Continue reading
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Tagged American System, Ascendency, Constitution, Depend, Essential, First Principles, Great, Influence, John C. Calhoun, Lawmaking Majoriy, Laws, Maintain, Necessary Consequence, Patronage, Point, Preserve, Success, Supercede, Supersede the Laws, Will of the Executive
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First Principles: It Is the Manners and Spirit of A People Which Preserve A Republic In Vigor
“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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Tagged Canker, Constitution, Degeneracy, First Principles, Heart, Laws, manners, People, Preserve, Republic, Spirit, Thomas Jefferson, Vigor
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First Principles: It Is the Manners and Spirit of A People Which Preserve A Republic In Vigor
“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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Tagged Canker, Constitution, Degeneracy, Eats, First Principles, Heart, Law, manners, People, Preserve, Republic, Spirit, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Guard With Jealous Attention the Public Liberty
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” – Patrick Henry (1788)
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Tagged Approach, First Principles, Force, Guard, Jealous Attention, Jewel, Patrick Henry, Preserve, Public Liberty, Ruin, Suspect
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Thought For the Day: You Cannot Begin To Preserve Any Species of Animal Unless You Preserve the Habitat In Which It Dwells
“You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means … Continue reading
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Tagged Animal, Conservation, Disturb Or Destroy, Dwell, Exterminate, Forests, Future Existence, Gerald Durrell, Grassland, Habitat, Lake, Mankind, Preserve, River, Sea, Shot, Species, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: The Republic Was Not Established By Cowards, and Cowards Will Not Preserve It
“The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it.” – Elmer Davis (1890-1958)
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Tagged Cowards, Elmer Davis, Establish, Preserve, Republic, Thought For the Day
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