Tag Archives: The People

First Principles: The Extravagant Expenditure of Public Money Is An Evil Not To Be Measured By the Value of That Money To the People Who are Taxed For It

Posted on March 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.” – Chester Arthur

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First Principles: Justice Is the End of Government. It Is the End of Civil Society

Posted on February 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.” – James Madison (1788)

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First Principles: Science Has Liberated the Ideas of Those Who Read and Reflect, and the American Example Has Kindled Feelings of Right In the People

Posted on February 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people.” – Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: Our Constitution Is An Instrument For the People To Restrain the Government

Posted on February 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.” – Patrick Henry

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First Principles: No People Can Be Bound To Acknowledge and Adore the Invisible Han, Which Conducts the Affairs of Men More Than the People of the United States

Posted on January 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States…Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Right of Freely Examining Public Characters and Measures, and of Free Communication…Has Ever Been Just Deemed the Only Effectual Guardian of Every Other Right

Posted on January 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon … has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.” – James Madison (1798)

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First Principles: To Disarm the People…Was the Best and Most Effectual Way to Enslave Them

Posted on December 16, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“To disarm the people… was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” - George Mason

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First Principles: There Must Be A Positive Passion For the Public Good…Established In the Minds of the People, Or There Can Be No Republican Government

Posted on December 12, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty.” – John Adams (1776)

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First Principles: Liberty Cannot Be Preserved Without A General Knowledge Among the People, Who Have A Right…To Knowledge

Posted on November 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to … Continue reading →

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First Principles: It Is A Just Observation That the People Commonly Intend the Public Good. This Often Applies To Their Very Errors.

Posted on November 17, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend they always reason right about the means of promoting … Continue reading →

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