Flickr Photos
Tag Archives: Subordination
First Principles: Minorities Have A Right To Appeal To the Constitution As A Shield Against Such Oppression
“By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one. It is a right to be exercised in subordination to the Constitution and in conformity to it. One great object of the … Continue reading
First Principles: Liberty Is Not To Be Enjoyed, Indeed It Cannot Exist, Without the Habits of Just Subordination; It Consists, Not So Much In Removing All Restraint From the Orderly, As In Imposing It On the Violent
“Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.” – Fisher Ames (1801) Twice … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Consist, Enjoy, Exist, First Principles, Fisher Ames, Habit, Impose, Liberty, Orderly, Remove, Restraint, Subordination, Violent
Leave a comment
First Principles: I Now Make It My Earnest Prayer That God Would Have You, and the State Over Which You Preside In His Holy Protection
“I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Brotherly Affection, Characteristics of the Divine, Charity, Circular Letter of Farewell, Citizens, Citizens of the United States, Earnest Prayer, First Principles, George Washington, God, Government, Hearts, Holy Protection, Humility, Justice, Mery, Obedience, Our Blessed Religion, State, Subordination
Leave a comment
Thought For the Day: The Vilest Form of Self-Abasement and Self-Destruction Is the Subordination of Your Mind To the Mind of Another
“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind … Continue reading
Posted in Thought For the Day
Tagged Acceptance, Assertions As Facts, Atlas Shrugged, Authority, Ayn Rand, Edicts As Middle-Man, Escape, Fact, Form, Independence, Judgement, Mind of Another, No Substitute, Nothing, Recognition, Responsibility, Say-So As Truth, Self Destruction, Self-Abasement, Subordination, Thought For the Day, Vile, Your Brain, Your Consciousness, Your Existence, Your Mind, Your Thinking
Leave a comment
First Principles: Democracy Degenerates Into Anarchy Without Subordination to Morality
“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
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Anarchy, Degenerates, Democracy, First Principles, John Adams, Liberty, Life, Morality, Property, Reputation, Security, Subordination, Virtue
Leave a comment
ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 