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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Brave
This is still the land of the free and the brave No matter how many among us are knaves A land with its allegiance made to freedom Where the people rule, not a kingdom Where we salute the Old Glory … Continue reading
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Tagged Brave, Cost, Country, Daily Prompt, Duty, Freedom, Gettysburg, Gratitude, Honor, Old Glory, Prayer, Price, Republic, Service, The People, United States of America, Wordpress
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Exceptional
Thinking in terms of the national There are few things as exceptional Than the gifts of freedom and liberty Paid for at the foot of that given tree Where mankind pines for freedom Safe from the tyrannical kingdoms And where … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Daily Prompt, Diligence, Exceptional, Freedom, Heritage, Liberty, Liberty Bell, Liberty Tree, National, Republic, Rule of Law, Vigilance, Wordpress
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First Principles: Democracy Leads To Licentiousness Not Liberty
“The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.” –Fisher Ames, speech in the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788 One need only look at the recent law passed by California in … Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution, Democracy, First Principles, Fisher Ames, Liberty, Licentiousness, Republic
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First Principles: Wastefulness and Corruption Sow the Seeds of Our Destruction
“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction.” — John Witherspoon (1776) Witherspoon was the only clergy man to sign the Declaration of Independence and ratify the Constitution. As … Continue reading
First Principles: Democracy Rapidly Deteriorates Into the Law of the Jungle
“Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchy, Constitution, Democracy, Devolution, First Principles, John Adams, Republic, Rule of Law, Rule of the Jungle
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First Principles: To Right Our Republic’s Course We Must Restore Our First Principles
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” – Montesquieu, in … Continue reading
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Tagged Corruption, Evils, First Principles, Government, History, Jefferson, Montesquieu, Remedy, Removal, Republic, Restoration, Spirit of the Laws
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First Principles: The Spirit of the People Preserves Our Republic’s Vigor
“The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in … Continue reading
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Tagged Canker, Consttution, Degeneracy, First Principles, General Welfare, Mob Rule, Republic, Spirit, Strength, Thomas Jefferson, Vigor
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First Principles: An Increased Welfare State Ends the Republic
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.” – Benjamin Franklin That is what we have done in the United States. We have created a subset class of persons … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Compromise, Rationality, Republic, Voters, Welfare State
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First Principles: Redistributing Wealth Begins the End of the Republic
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” – -Benjamin Franklin
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, End, Greed, Money, Redistribution, Republic
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First Principles: Republics Are Lost When Flattery Is Favored Over Truth
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, … Continue reading →