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First Principles: They Who Can Give Up Essential Liberty To Obtain A Little Temporary Safety Deserve Neither Liberty Nor Safety
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin
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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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First Principles: In the Struggle For Liberty, Be Willing To Know the Whole Truth; To know the Worst and To Provide For It
“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth – and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this … Continue reading
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Tagged Anguish, Beast, Eyes, First Principles, Hope, Illusion, Know, Liberty, Mankind, Natural, Pain, Patrick Henry, Provide, Salvation, Shut, Spirit, Struggle, Temporary, Transform, Truth, Virginia Convention, Whole, Wise Men
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Thought For the Day: In A World Full of Temporary Things, You Are My Perpetual Feeling
“in a world full of temporary things you are a perpetual feeling.” ― Sanober Khan
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Tagged Feeling, Full, Happy Valentine's Day, Perpetual, Sanober Khan, Temporary, Things, Thought For the Day, World, You
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Thought For the Day: Nothing Is So Permanent As A Temporary Government Program
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” – Milton Friedman
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Memories In An Elephant’s Trunk
A poem of gratitude #11: Memories In An Elephant’s Trunk by Michael Romani With gratitude I share my words While overhead there are flying birds Puzzling along these thoughts contemporary Wondering how much is too temporary Unlike elephants who read … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Being, Better, Birds, Butterfly, Change, Contemporary, Day To Day, Deep, Define, Elephant, Falling Star, Find, Forward, Friend, Gone, Good, Gratititude, Heart, Hold On, Honest, Learn, Light, Lost, Love, Memory, Miracle, Morning, Nature, Night, Pass, Path, Photograph, Picnic, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Puzzle, Read, Realize, Rearrange, Refine, See, Share, Shine, Soul, Star, Sunrise, Surprise, Temporary, Trunk, Truth, Ways, Whole, Wild, Wonder, Words, World
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WordPress – #Daily Prompt – Wonder
So cold these thoughts They leave me wondering Stone cold these thoughts From all of my blundering I need something to warm me up Just a bit of chocolate from my cup Yesterday is so very gone There’s no percentage … Continue reading
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Tagged Blundering, Cold, Daily Prompt, Hanging On, Hot Chocolate, Memories, Permanent, Stone, Temporary, Thoughts, Warmth, Wonder, Wordpress
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