Tag Archives: Property

First Principles: We Cannot Be Happy Without Being Free; We Cannot Be Free Without Being Secure In Our Property

Posted on February 22, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot be free, without being secure in our property— that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Natural Rights of All People Include the Right To Life; the Right to Liberty; the Right to Property and the Right to Defend These

Posted on January 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.” – Samuel Adams

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First Principles: Among the Natural Rights of All Is First the Right To Life

Posted on November 29, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

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First Principles: We Came As Equals Into This World and We Shall Leave This World As Equals As Well

Posted on August 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.” – George Mason

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First Principles: Government Is Founded On the Necessities of Our Nature and the Unchangeable Will of God

Posted on August 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution of 1688; nor on property, as was the assertion of Harrington. It springs from the … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Government’s Only End Is the Preservation of Property

Posted on August 3, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.” – John Locke If we vote any of these socialists in the office of the presidency in 2020, we will have turned our backs on our founding principles,.. and I will … Continue reading →

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First Principles: When Legislators Take and Destroy the Property of the People or Reduce the People To Slavery, the People Are Absolved From Further Obedience

Posted on July 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Richest Inheritance Is To Pass On Christianity To Our Family

Posted on May 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian Religion. If they had that and I had not given them one shilling … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Unlimited Power To Tax Necessarily Is the Power To Destroy

Posted on April 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.” – John Marshall (1819)

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First Principles: No Type of Property Is Secure Under Excessive or Inequitable Taxes

Posted on March 1, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.” – James Madison (1792)

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