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Thought For the Day: The Founders of the United States Believed Our Leaders Would Always Be Honest and Honorable
“The drafters of the Constitution had made on simple but far reaching error. They’d assumed the people selected by the People to manage the nation would be as honest and honorable as they’d been. One could almost hear the “Oops!” … Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution, Error, Founding Fathers, Governance, Honest, Honor, The People, Thought For the Day, Tom Clancy
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First Principles: Be Vigilant Of Our Rights Against Even Those Political Leaders We Least Suspect
“[T]he people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 25, 1787 If anyone has any doubt about … Continue reading
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First Principles: Encroachments On Liberty Often Have Small Beginnings
“The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprised in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Democratic Government Teaches The Best Course By Experience
“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Democratic Government, Error, Experience, The People, Theory, Thought For the Day, WEB Du Bois, Will
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First Principles: The People Must Be Vigilant of Their Rights At All Times
“For it is a truth which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger, when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, All Ages, Federalist Papers No. 25, First Principles, History, Injury, Means, Rights, The People, Truth, Vigilance
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Thought For the Day: The People Will Find Their Own Right Way To Go
“The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way … Continue reading
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Tagged Government, Maxim, Self Government, The People, Thomas B Macaulay, Thought For the Day, Train
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First Principles: Diffusion of Knowledge and Virtue Secures Our Liberty
“If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security.” – Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1779
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Tagged Diffusion, First Principles, Freedom, James Warren, Knowledge, Samuel Adams, Security, The People, Virtue
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First Principles: Our Government Is For the Common Good of Its Citizens and Not Just one Class or Group
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an … Continue reading
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First Principles: The People Have A Right To Redress Governmental Excess
“If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people … must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Liberty Is In the Hearts of the People
“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it … Continue reading
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Tagged Absence, Cherish, Devotion, Hearts, Judge Learned Hand, Liberty, Presence, Rule of Law, The People
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