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First Principles: Can the Liberties of A Nation Be Secure When We Have Removed A Conviction That These Liberties Are the Gift of God?
“God who gave us life gave us Liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that … Continue reading
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Tagged Conviction, Country, First Principles, Forever, Gift of God, God, Just, Justice, Liberties of A Nation, Liberty, Life, Reflect, Secure, Sleep, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble
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First Principles: Society In Every State Is A Blessing, But Government, Even In Its Best State, Is But A Necessary Evil
“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessing, Common Sense, Country, First Principles, Government, Intolerable, Means, Misery, Necessary Evil, Reflect, Society, State, Suffer, Thomas Paine, Worst State
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First Principles: I Tremble For My Country When I Reflect That God Is Just; That His Justice Cannot Sleep Forever
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Basis, Conviction, Country, First Principles, Forever, Gift, God, Just, Justice, Liberties, Minds, Nation, Notes On the State of Virginia, Reflect, Remove, Secure, Sleep, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble, Violate, Wrath
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First Principles: God Who Gave Us Life Gave Us Liberty
“God who gave us life gave us Liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that … Continue reading
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Tagged Conviction, Country, First Principles, Gift of God, God, Just, Justice, Liberties of A Nation, Liberty, Life, Reflect, Secure, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble
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Perspective Revisited
Perspective Revisited by Michael Doyle Float to the top Or sink to the bottom The rest is just churn This is a lesson in life One that is usually earned It’s our decision in how we learn Everyone dreams, big … Continue reading
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Tagged Bottom, Change, Churn, Cloud, Concern, Decision, Done, Dream, Earned, Float, Focus, Foot, Hide, Learn, Lesson, Life, Other's Hero, Poetry and Poems, Prespective, Pretend, Reflect, Rest, Revisited, Save, Secrets, Sink, Top of the Mountain, Top of the World, Zero
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A Birthday Week
A Birthday Weekby Michael DoyleSolid as it is with just a look2020 was a hard one for the history booksBut, as those pages have turnedThere was one thing that I have learnedMy love was born a Libra on her scaleAnd … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Agreeable Enough, Birthday, Birthday Week, Celebrate, Celebration, Clarity, Complexity, Connection, Contemplation, Dare, Deny, Easy, Fun, Golden Heart, Great Gift, Hard One, History Books, Insistence, Justice, Learned, Libra, Look, Love, Love of Fashion, Mumble, Need, One, Pages, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Reflect, Relaxation, Request, Scale, Sense, Simplicity, Sincerity, Solid, Speak, Strong Desire, Thing, Turn, Unity, Week, Words
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A Vacation In the Reflective
A Vacation In the Reflectiveby Michael DoyleIt seems to me that there’s one thingCovid has brought and its the thrivingThat comes in knowing it’s not really destinationGiving us the best of our family vacationIt does not hurt in thinking locationBut, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambience, Architecture, Beauty, Billion, Blown Ego, Candid, Catch the Light, Collect, Contrast, Covid, Creative, Curves, Dawn, Day, Death's Embrace, Destination, Difference, Differently, Dignity, Dingy, Draw, Early To rise, Edges, Eloquent, Exact, Familiar, Family, Family Vacation, Feel, Floor, Focus, Found, Grey, Handholding, Highest Degree, Hurt, Images, Inside, Intimacy, Intricate, Just Right, Know, Lattice, Life, Linger, Location, Lunacy, Making the Best, Marble, Measuring Ages, Moments, Mt. Rushmore, New Angle, Opportunity, Perspective, Photo, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Potential, Real, Reflect, Remind, Restrict, Reverence, Said, Seems, Share, Situation, Sky, Snapshot, Spin, Standard Image, Statue of Liberty, Stiff As A Board, Surprise, Texture, Thoughtful Expression, Thrive, Too Big, Top Down View, Trip of the Shutter, Twilight, Vacation, Visual, Whole Other World, World, Wounded Pride
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First Principles: I Tremble For My Country When I Reflect That God Is Just (and) That His Justice Cannot Sleep Forever
“Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever…. The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.” – Thomas Jefferson, in Notes … Continue reading
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Tagged Cannot Sleep, Contest, Country, First Principles, Forever, God, His Justice, Just, No Attribute, Notes On the State of Virginia, Reflect, Takes Side, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble
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