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First Principles: A Good Government Implies Two Things; First, Fidelity To the Objects of the Government; Secondly, A Knowledge of the Means, By Which Those Objects Can Be Best Attained
“A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.” – Joseph Story (1833)
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Tagged Attained, Fidelity, First Principles, Good Government, Government, Joseph Story, Knowledge, Means, Objects, Second, Two
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Thought For the Day: All Truth Passes Through Three Stages. First, It is Ridiculed. Second, It Is Violently Opposed. Third, It Is Accepted As Being Self-Evident
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
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Thought For the Day: Autumn Is A Second Spring When Every Leaf Is A Flower
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” – Albert Camus
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Thought For the Day: Either Human Intelligence Ultimately Owes Its Origin To Mindless Matter, Or There Is A Creator
“Either human intelligence ultimately owes its origin to mindless matter, or there is a Creator. It is strange that some people claim that it is their intelligence that leads them to prefer the first to the second.” – John Lennox
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Tagged Claim, Creator, Either, First, Human Intelligence, John Lennox, Mindless Matter, Origin, Owe, Prefer, Second, Some People, Strange, Their Intelligence, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: Among the Natural Rights (of the People) Are There: First, A Right To Life, Secondly, To Liberty; Thirdly to Property
“Among the natural rights [of the people] are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.” – Samuel Adams (1772)
First Principles: There Are Only Two Cases In Which War Is Just: First, In Order To Resist the Aggression of An Enemy, and Second, In Order To Help An Ally Who Has Been Attacked
“There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.”– Montesquieu
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Tagged Aggression, Ally, Attacked, Enemy, First, First Principles, Help, Montesquieu, Resist, Second, Two Cases, Ukraine, WarJust, Willy Joseph Cancel
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First Principles: Falsehood of the Tongue Leads To That of the Heart, and In Time Depraves All Its Good Disposition
“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it … Continue reading
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Tagged All of Its Good Disposition, Attending, Contemptible, Depraves, Easier, Falsehood, First Principles, Habitual, Heart, Importance, Lie Once, Lies, Mean, Never To Tell An Untruth, Permit, Pitiful, Resolution, Second, Thomas Jefferson, Thrid, Time, Tongue, Truths, Vice, World's Believing
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The Lateness of the Hour
Returning back to a promised project that was set down for a time and based in part on The Twilight Zone, Season 2, Episode 8: The Lateness of the Hour by Michael Doyle In a labyrinth of the mind’s imprecision We … Continue reading
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First Principles: They Who Permit Themselves To Lie Once, Find It Much Easier To Do Until It Becomes Habitual
“He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s … Continue reading
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