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Tag Archives: The People
First Principles: Stability In Government Is Essential To National Character and To the Advantages Annexed To It…Which Are Among the Chief Blessings of Civil Society
“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
First Principles: If We Can Prevent the Government From Wasting the Labors of the People, Under the Pretence of Taking Care of Them, They Must Become Happy
“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.” – Thomas Jefferson (1802)
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First Principles: The States Can Best Govern Our Home Concerns…I Wish Therefore…Never To See All Offices Transferred To Washington
“The States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore … never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly … Continue reading
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Tagged All Offices, Bought and Sold, Eyes, First Principles, General Government, Govern, Home Concerns, Market, Secret, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Washington, Wish, Withdrawn
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First Principles: I Tremble For My Country When I Reflect That God Is Just: That His Justice Cannot Sleep Forever
“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be … Continue reading
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First Principles: A Dependence On the People Is, No Doubt, the Primary Control On the Government; But Experience Has Taught Mankind the Necessity of Auxiliary Pre Cautions
“A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.” – James Madison (1788)
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Tagged Auxiliary, Dependence, Experience, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Mankind, Necessity, Precaution, Primary Control, The People
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How Much Law Is Enough Law?
How Much Law Is Enough Law?by Michael DoyleIt is no secret that laws weren’t to be numerousNor were our laws meant to be written as voluminous Every one of our Founding Fathers made that clearWhen they said as much and … Continue reading
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First Principles: Every Government Degenerates When Trusted To the Rulers of the People Alone. The People Themselves, Therefore, Are Its Only Safe Depositories
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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First Principles: The Time To Guard Against Corruption and Tyranny, Is Before They Shall Have Gotten Hold of Us
“Mankind soon learn to make interested uses of every right and power which they possess, or may assume. The public money and public liberty, intended to have been deposited with three branches of magistracy, but found inadvertently to be in … Continue reading
Citizens: Me and You
Citizens: Me and Youby Michael DoyleI. This nation was born under the authorityBlessed into birth by God’s wise dignityAs one filled with freedom and libertyGiven to us, not by government, but God’s divinityWe, this republic, are born by providenceThat all … Continue reading
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Tagged American Civilization, Authority, Belief and Obedience, Bible, Birth, Christianity, Citizens, Commandments, Conspicious, Daily Affairs, Duality, Faith, Faithfulness, Freedom and Liberty, God, God's Divinity, God's Hand, Godly Principles, Govern, Government, Gratitude, History, Independence, Inheritance, Interplay, Jesus, Liberties, Madison, Maintenance, Manifest, Mayflower Compact, Me and You, Nation, Oppressed, Patrick Henry, Philosophy, Poetry and Poems, Prayerful Hands, Promise, Providence, Representation, Republic, Reverence, Right Attitude, Samuel Adams, Scrripture, Sin, Sovereign, Spirituality, Station, The People, Under God, Washington
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First Principles: Blessed Is the Nation Whose God Is the Lord; and the People Whom He Hath Chosen For His Own Inheritance
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.” – Psalms 33:12
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