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First Principles: Neither the Wisest Constitution Nor the Wisest Laws Will Secure the Liberty and Happiness of A People Whose Manners Are Universally Corrupt
“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.” – Samuel Adams (1749)
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With Favor Upon Us All
With Favor Upon Us Allby Michael DoyleStanding together in our worshipGiving our reverence to His kingshipThe Lord above takes controlSecuring as He does our every roleSurrounding us with and in His presenceFilling our lives with His blessingsHis is the truth … Continue reading
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Tagged All Worldly Things, Bend, Blessings, Conquer, Control, Each of Us, Eternity, Faithful Embrace, Feel This Deep, Filling Our Lives, Given To Us, God's Love, Good and Right, Hearts Breaking, His Grace, His Path, His Presence, Kingship, Knees, Lift Our Voices, Melody, Moving Forward, Not Be Forsaken, On Us All, Our Lives, Our Worship, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Reverence, Role, Secure, Shaking, Sing, Song, Standing Together, Steady, Taken, The Lord, Very Best, We Bring, We Find Our Place, With Favor, Worship
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Thought For the Day: It Is Not the Business of Government To Make Men Virtuous Or Religious, Or to Preserve the Fool From the Consequences of His Own Folly
“It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aggression, Consequence, Equal Rights, Fool, Government, Henry George, Liberty, Make, Mankind, No Further, Not the Business, Own Folly, Part of Others, Preserve, Protecting, Religious, Repressive, Secure, Than Necessary, Thought For the Day, Virtuous
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First Principles: Neither the Wisest Constitution Nor the Wisest Laws Will Secure the Liberty and Happiness of A People Whose Manners Are Universally Corrupt
“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.” – Samuel Adams (1749)
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Tagged Constitution, Corrupt, First Principles, Happiness, Laws, Liberty, manners, Neither, People, Samuel Adams, Secure, Univerally, Wise
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First Principles: Neither the Wisest Constitution Nor the Wisest Laws Will Secure the Liberty and Happiness of A People Whose Manners Are Universally Corrupt
“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.” – Samuel Adams (1749)
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Tagged First Principles, Happiness, Laws, Liberty, manners, Neither, People, Samuel Adams, Secure, Universally Corrupt, Wisest Constitution
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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 Cannot Sleep Forever, Conviction, Country, First Principles, Gave, Gift of God, God, His Justice, Just, Liberties, Liberties of A Nation, Liberty, Life, Reflect, Remove, Secure, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble
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Finding the Good
I had a discussion with someone many years ago about why I wanted two princesses to be familiar with the literary classics from which there were derived the 5′ Shelf of Books aka Harvard Classics. After all, the contention was, … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Applcable, Artistically, Assertation, Being, Best, Book, Can, Capable, Certainty, Choice, Choose, Churchill, Commotion, Confusion, Consistentcy, Contention, Creation, Culture, Daily Smoke, Depiction, Discern, Discussion, Do, Education Draw, Emotion, Experience, Exposure, Extent, Fiction, Find, Five Foot Shelf of Books, Forgot, Friction, Future, Glory, Good, Harvard Classics, Heard, Hesitation, Historicity, Human Beings, Human Soul, Humans, Illusion, Imagination, Imminent, Implicit, Investigation, Learn, Lfie, Literary, Literary Classics, Man, Meaning, Much, Mystery, Need, Neglect, Nuance, Obscure, Observation, Out, Perception, Photograph, Plays, Poem, Poetry, Pretenses, Principles, Question, Reading, Reason, Remember, Resolution, Right and Wrong, Rise, Role, School, Secure, Seen, Senses, Shakespeare, Sincere, Songs, Sonnet, Story Teller, Taint, Teach, The Tempest, Truth, Understood, Veil, Verbal, Visible, Ways, Wisdom, Words
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With the Turning of the Screw
Legend is replete of those who live and die by the sword, all in the name of honor and glory. It is a noble story. With the Turning of the Screw by Michael Doyle Bitterness born of grief The warrior … Continue reading
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Tagged Bitterness, Blood, Call, Command, Deep, Fate, Fight, Glory, Grief, Haste, Heritage, Home, Honor, Land, Late, Legend, Noble, Patronage, Penance, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Realm, Reclaim, Regain, Relief, Remain, Restoration, Revenge, Rule, Screw, Secret, Secure, Story, Sword, Taste, Tears, Turn, Veins, Warrior
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