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Thought For the Day: When Confidence In the Election Process Disappears, Confidence In the Legitimacy of Government Disappears With It
“The reason our democratic republic has functioned as well as it has for the past 231 years is because of our trust in the electoral process. When confidence in the election process disappears, confidence in the legitimacy of government disappears … Continue reading
First Principles: 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
” 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.” – Thomas … Continue reading
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Tagged Correction, Corrupt, First Principles, Growing Evils, Lost Principles, New Evil, No Possibility, Once, Remedy, Remove, Republic, Restore, Thomas Jefferson, Useless
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Thought For the Day: We are not just flesh, bone and blood, we are human beings with souls. Our republic was formed on the basis that freedom is not a gift from government but that freedom is a gift from God!
“We are not just flesh, bone and blood, we are human beings with souls. Our republic was formed on the basis that freedom is not a gift from government but that freedom is a gift from God!” – President Donald … Continue reading
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Tagged A Gift From God, Basis, Blood, Bones, Flesh, Formed, Freedom, Human Beings, Not A Gift From Government, President Donald J Trump, Republic, Soul, Thought For the Day, We
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Thought For the Day: Happy Independence Day!!
Happy Fourth of July!! On this Independence Day 2020, may Freedom ring from sea to shining sea!! #ProudAmerican (if you’re a proud American may I suggest we unite as one from our many though the use of this hashtag in honor … Continue reading
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Tagged 1619 Project, All, Balance, Cause of Freedom, Celebration, Founding Fathers, Freedom, Great Nation, Happy Fourth of July, Happy Independence Day, HashTag, Honor, Ignorance, Liberty, Lies, Majority, Minoirty, Our Story, Proud American, Republic, Rights, Ring, Sea to Shining Sea, Thought For the Day, Truth, Universal Suffrage
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First Principles: Without Morals A Republic Cannot Subsist Any Length of Time
“Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, … Continue reading
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, Degenarcy, Eat, First Prinicples, Heart, Laws, manners, People, Preserve, Republic, Spirit, Thomas Jefferson
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Guarding Against Faction
Today’s poem about American history speaks on some basic principles as set out in largely in Federalist Paper Number 10 in which we choose to become a republic and not a democracy to protection of nation from the encroachment of … Continue reading
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A Star Wars Lesson In Liberty
May 4th has become, for some, a day of tribute to Star Wars as “May the 4th Be With You” day. When the day passed recently, it gave me some cause to think about how we around the planet … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Right of the Citizens To Keep and Bear Arms Has Justly Been Considered As the Palladium of the Liberties of the Republic
“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of the republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of the rulers; and will … Continue reading →