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First Principles: Now More Than Ever, the People Are Responsible For the Character of Their Congress. If That Body Be Ignorant, Reckless, and Corrupt, It Is Because the People Tolerate Ignorance, Recklessness, and Corruption
“Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it … Continue reading
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Tagged Character, Congress, Corrupt, First Princples, Ignorrant, James A. Garfield, Reckless, Responsible, The People, Toleration
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Thought For the Day: The Whole People, Who Formed the Union…Men, Their Rights and Nothing More; Women, Their Rights and Nothing Less
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.” – Susan … Continue reading
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Tagged Men, Nothing Less, Rights, Susan B. Anthony, The People, The Union, Thought For the Day, We, Whole People, Women
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First Principles: Government Is A Trust, and the Officers of the Government Are Trustees. And Both the Trust and that Trustees Are Created For the Benefit of the People
“Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.” – Henry Clay
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Tagged Benefit, Creation, First Prnnciples, Government, Henry Clay, Officers, The People, Trust, Trustees
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Thought For the Day: May God Save the Country, For It Is Evident That the People Will Not
“May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.” – Millard Fillmore
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Tagged Country, Evidence, God, Millard Fillmore, The People, Thought For the Day
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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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Tagged 1979, Authority, Beast, Civilization, Coercion, Conflict, Credibility, Crown Prince, Different, Economic Relief, End, Expression, Figurehea, Force, Freeom, Historic Dignity, Hope, Iran, Islamic Republic, Kngdom, Memory, Nation, Opposition, Peace, Persia, Poetry and Poems, Position, Religion, Religious Extortion, Remembered, Repression, Reverent, Rise, Silence, Storied Land, Supreme Leaders, The People, Thecocracy, This tm, Tyranny, Unnatural Politics, Waiting Silence, Whisper
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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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Tagged Dependence, First Principles, For the People, Government, Grover Cleveland, Intelligence, Interest, Justice, Morality, Success, The People
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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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Tagged America, Cold Warmth, Collective Socialism, Commence, Common Sense, Communism, Crossroads, Death, Distinction, Economic Cruelty, Extinction, Freedom, Government, History, Inseperable, Liberty, Liberty and Property, Marxist Math, Nepotism, Patch of Land, Philosophic, Planned Economies, Politically Capable, Private Property, Property, Property and Poems, Prosperity, Protection, Pursuit of Happiness, Roots, Shelter, The People, Tie-In, Tryanny, Ulterior Pessimism, Voters, Wrongness
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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
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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Tagged First Principles, Incoherent, James Madison, Law, Little Avail, Own Choice, Read, The People, Understood, Voluminous
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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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