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First Principles: The Great Principles of Right and Wrong Are Legible To Every Reader; To Pursue Them Requires Not the Aid of Many Counselors
“The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors.” – Thomas Jefferson (1775)
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On Becoming Truly Human
Based on 1 Corinthians 12: On Becoming Truly Humanby Michael Doyle On becoming human resplendentWe were never meant to be independentBut rather communal in the nature of our beingLiving in a communion of love with all we’re seeing Love is … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Corinthians 12, Accept, As We Are, Becoming, Being, Body of Christ, Brink, Brother, Burden, Christ, Christian Life, Communal, Connected, Core, Dedication, Divine, Elocution, Focus, God's Family, God's Plan, Heart, Holy Trinity, Humble, Illustration, Independent, Keep Our Faith, Knowing, Living In Communion, Love, Love Grows, Many Members, Meant, Miles, Nature, New Life, One Another, One Body, Overflowing, Part, Poetry and Poems, Process, Quenching the Thirst, Remember, Resplendent, Right, Sacred, Santification, Satisfy, See, Seeing, Serves Us Well, Sister, Sufficiency, Sum, The Spirit, Think, Together, Transcendent, Trials, Truest Theology, Truly Human, Vine and Branches, Vineyard, Walk, We Believe, Whole, Wine, Working for Good
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First Principles: In Short, Is Not Liberty the Freedom of Every Person To Make Full Use of His Faculties, So Long As He Does Not Harm Other Persons While Doing So?
“In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism — including, of … Continue reading
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Tagged Destruction of All Despotism, Does Not Harm Other Persons, Every Person, Faculties, First Principles, Frederic Bastiat, Freedom, Individual, Lawful Self-Defense, Legal Despotism, Liberty, Organizing, Punishing Injustice, Rational Sphere, Restricting of the Law, Right
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First Principles: The Right of Freely Examining Public Characters and Measures, and of Free Communication Among the People Thereon… Has Ever Been Justly Deemed the Only Effectual Guardian of Every Other Right
“The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon … has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”– James Madison (1798)
Thought For the Day: There Are Those Who Will Say That the…Freedom of Man and Mind Is the American Dream
“There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.” – Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
First Principles: Honor, Justice and Humanity Forbid Us Tamely To Surrender That Freedom Which We Received From Our Gallant Ancestors
“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding … Continue reading
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Tagged First Principles, Forbid, Freedom, Gallant Ancestors, Honor, Humanity, Innocent Posterity, Justice, Received, Right, Surrender, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Born In Other Countries, Yet Believing You Could Be Happy In This, Our Laws Acknowledge, As They Should Do, Your Right To Join Us In Society, Conforming…To Our Established Rules
“Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules.” – Thomas … Continue reading
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First Principles: These United Colonies Are, and of A Right Ought To Be, Free and Independent States, That They Are Absolved From Allegiance To the British Crown
“That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, … Continue reading
First Principles: The Right of Freely Examining Public Characters and Measures…Has Ever Been Justly Deemed the Only Effectual Guardian of Every Other Right
“The right of freely examining public characters and measures … has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.” – James Madison (1798)
Thought For the Day: Freedom To Differ Is Not Limited To Things That Do Not Matter Much. That Would Be A Mere Shadow of Freedom.
“Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Differ, Freedom, Justice Robert H. Jackson, Limited, Matter, Right, Shadow, Substance, Test, Thought For the Day, Touch the Heart
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 