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First Principles: To Preserve the Republican Form and Principles of Our Constitution and Cleave To the Salutary Distribution of Powers… Are the Two Sheet Anchors of Our Union
“To preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which [the Constitution] has established … are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in … Continue reading
A Graduated Conflict of Morality
A Graduated Conflict of Moralityby Michael DoyleThe late 1960s were a time of generational conflictWith more moral questions than principles to inflictRestrictions on all the choices between the rightAnd wrong of what was needed to get through the nightTo some, … Continue reading
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First Principles: Systems of Education Should Be Adopted…Which…Implant…the Principles of Virtue and of Liberty
“It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue … Continue reading
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Tagged Adopted, American Youth, Atachment, Country, Diffuse, First Principles, Government, Inspire, Just and Liberal Ideas, Liberty, Minds, Noah Webster, Object, Principles, Sciences, Systems of Education, Virtue
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Exiting To A New Beginning
Exiting To A New Beginningby Michael DoyleThe alpha and the omegaThe beginning and the endLife’s alpha and its omegaLaid bare at the year’s beginning and endGod breathes our lives into motionWhatever the season’s emotionsWe aim to begin and finish strongAs … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, Aim, Anchored, Biblical, Blind, Breathe, Church, Community, Complaints, Courage, Desire, Emotion, Empty, Exit, Faith, Family, Glasses, Habakkuk, Half Full, Happy, Heal, Hesitation, Motion, New Beginning, One, Poetry and Poems, Political, Presses On, Principles, Question, Relatinship, Right, Right Choice, Sacred Family, Season, Sight, Spiritual Blindness, Story, Strong, Struggle, The Alpha and the Omega, Voice, Walk, Worship, Wounds of Division, Year
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On Foundations Known
On Foundations Knownby Michael DoyleRevolutions come from old foundations knownAnd the principles of justice clearly shownThis then is society’s first sense of dutyPart and parcel to the truth of American beautyAnd equally distributed across humanityWhen philosophers talk about braveryThere is … Continue reading
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Tagged American Beauty, Bravery, Cardinal Attribute, Commodity, Devotion, Distribute, Duty, English Common Law, Equal, Eternal Vigilence, Fascism, Few, Fiefdom, Forever Absolute, Foundations, Freedom, Furture, Good, Heritage, Humanity, Immortality, Justice, Known, Many, Morality, Motion, Nurture, O, Optimism, Philosopher, Physical Sense, Poetry and Poems, Price of Liberty, Principles, Recall, Republic, Revolution, Seedlings, Self-Rule, Society, Soul, Theft, Trample, Understood, Universe, Virtue, We The People, Wheels
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First Principles: There Must Be Associations of Men of Unshaken Fortitude. A General Dissolution of Principles & Manners Will More Surely Overthrow the Liberties of America Than the Whole Force of the Common Enemy
“…(T)here must be Associations of Men of unshaken Fortitude. A general Dissolution of Principles & Manners will more surely overthrow the Liberties of America than the whole Force of the Common Enemy.” – Samuel Adams, in a letter to James Warren, … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Association, Common Enemy, Dissolution, First Principles, Fortitude, James Warren, Liberties, manners, Men, Overthrow, Principles, Samuel Adams, Whole Force
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Conversion Then Immersion: Faith Required
Conversion Then Immersion: Faith Requiredby Michael DoyleIt is said firmly, and I believe itBaptism is not a matter of take it or leave itImmersion, conversion: Faith is requiredTo take on the Holy Spirit, it’s acquiredIt’s a living truth for this … Continue reading
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Tagged Acquire, Authority, Baptism, Conversion, Discipleship, Eternal Word, Faith, Generation, Great Commission, Holy Spirit, Immersion, Living Truth, Matthew, Omission, Path, Poetry and Poems, Principles, Required, Trust, Understood, Veneration
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Politically Incorrect Revisited
Politically Incorrect Revisitedby Michael DoyleIs there some kind of fearThat we the people might persevereInto the rapid-fire shaking upCrystalized by making upToo many improvised linesSliding through topical landminesIn an approximation of real-timeThat edges up into the sublimeIt’s that take no … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Without Justice Being Freely, Fully, and Impartially Administered, Neither Our Persons, Nor Our Rights, Not Our Property, Can Be Protected
“Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either of them, are regulated by no certain laws, and are subject to no certain principles, … Continue reading →