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First Principles: Freedom Is Kept Through Virtue and Knowledge
“If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus’d among the People, they will never be enslav’d. This will be their great Security.” – Samuel Adams, in a Letter to James Warren (February 12, 1779) That is perhaps the striking oddity of so … Continue reading
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First Principles: Wastefulness and Corruption Sow the Seeds of Our Destruction
“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction.” — John Witherspoon (1776) Witherspoon was the only clergy man to sign the Declaration of Independence and ratify the Constitution. As … Continue reading
First Principles: The First Line of Safety Is People Helping People
“The ingredients which constitute safety in the republican sense are, first, a due dependence on the people, secondly, a due responsibility.” —Alexander Hamilton (1788) One need only look at how people of walks in life have come together and helped … Continue reading
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First Principles: A Flourishing Nation Depends On Virtue
“It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.” – Richard Henry Lee (1786), Signer of the Declaration of Independence and President of the Continental Congress
First Principles: The Right To Bear Arms Rests With the People
“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.” – Alexander Hamilton
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First Principles: Acquiring Knowledge and Wisdom Is Necessary to Self-Government
“Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused. A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with power which knowledge gives. A … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Power Of the Nation Belongs To The People
“The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every danger that has been apprehended.” – John Dickinson, Letters of Fabius, 1788 The Letters of Fabius … Continue reading
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First Principles: Possession and Use of Arms
“[T]o preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.” – Federal Farmer (1787 Richard Henry Lee was a leader during the Revolutionary … Continue reading
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