Tag Archives: The People

From the Silence Remembered

From the Silence Rememberedby Michael DoyleFrom the waiting silence comes the memoryOf a time when Iran was full of majesty.This storied land grasps for freedom,Not wishing to be a kingdom or a theocracy. This time whispers the quietly reverent,This time, … Continue reading

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First Principles: A Government For the People Must Depend For Its Success On the Intelligence, the Morality, the Justice, and the Interest of the People Themselves

“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.” – Grover Cleveland

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The Cold Warmth of Economic Cruelty

The Cold Warmth of Economic Crueltyby Michael DoyleWhat is now happiness in its pursuit,Was once the right to own property.Democratic Socialism grows at the roots,While voters forget the tie-in with prosperity.It only needs a little patch of landFrom which the … Continue reading

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First Principles: A Government Which Lays Taxes On the People Not Required By Urgent Public Necessity and Sound Public Policy Is Not A Protector of Liberty, But An Instrument of Tyranny

“A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.” – Calvin Coolidge

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First Principles: It Will Be Of Little Avail To the People That the Laws Are Made By Me of Their Own Choice If the Laws Be So Voluminous That They Cannot Be Read, Or So Incoherent That They Cannot Be Understood

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” – … Continue reading

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First Principles: Unless the People, Through Unified Action, Arise and Take Charge of Their Government, They Will Find That Their Government Has Taken Charge of Them

“Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition … Continue reading

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Madami III

Madami IIIby Michael DoyleMadami is the Democratic Socialist poster child.They’ve hijacked the Democrats into a party gone wild.Processing the hubris of communism and derision,These scandals swim through the cesspools of division.This is the long game of total determinationBy a group … Continue reading

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First Principles: Stability In Government Is Essential To National Character and To the Advantages Annexed It

“Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.” – James … Continue reading

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First Principles: The Magistrate Is Not the King. The People Are the King.

“This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.” Gouverneur Morris  Someone should alert the radical Left that they didn’t even get this one correct. Because the follow up sentiment to this is: That the King is simply … Continue reading

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First Principles: It Is In the Interest of Tyrants To Reduce the People To Ignorance and Vice. For They Cannot Live In Any Country Where Virtue and Knowledge Prevail.

“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.” – Samuel Adams

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