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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)
First Principles: There Are More Instances of the Abridgment of the Freedom of the People By Gradual and Silent Encroachments By Those In Power Than By Violent and Sudden Usurpations
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” – James Madison (1788)
First Principles: The People Alone Have An Incontestable, Unalienable, and Indefeasible Right To Institute Government and To Reform, Alter, Or Totally Change the Same
“The People alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.” – John Adams
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Tagged Alter, Change, First Principles, Government, Happiness, Incontestable, Institute, John Adams, Prosperity, Protection, Reform, Require, Safety, The People, Unalienable
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First Principles: Governments Do Not Make Ideals, But Ideals Make Governments
“Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course, the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source … Continue reading
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Tagged Calvin Coolidge, Character, Create, Enactment, First Principles, Governments, Historical, Ideals, Institutions, Law, Logic, Nation, Nature, Observance, Observed, Source, Sustain, The People
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First Principles: The Evils We Experience Flow From the Excess of Democracy. The People Do Not Want Virtue, But Are the Dupes of Pretended Patriots
“The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.” —Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814)
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Tagged Democacy, Dupes, Elbridge Gerry, Evils, Excess, Experience, First Principles, Flow, Pretended Patriots, The People, Virtue
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First Principles: Until We Can Reestablish A Condition Under Which the Earnings of the People Can Be Kept By the People, We are Bound To Suffer…Curtailment of Our Liberty
“I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can … Continue reading
First Principles: All the Children Are Trained Up To This Kind of Knowledge: They Are Accustomed From Their Earliest Years To Read the Holy Scriptures
“Among the customs which are universal among the people, in all parts of the state, one that seems worthy of remark, is, the attention that is paid to the education of children. The aim of the parent, is not so … Continue reading
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Tagged 1794, Aim, Arithmetic, Attention, Children, Common and Universal, Customs, Education, First Principles, Harvard College, Holy Scriptures, Knowledge, Law, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Newspapers, Occupations of Life, Parent, Periodical Publications, Political Pamphlets, Proceedings, Red, Samuel Adams, The Natural and Civil History of Vermont, The People, Write
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First Principles: If A Nation Expects To Be Ignorant – and Free – In A State of Civilization, It Expects What Never Was and Never Will Be
“If a nation expects to be ignorant — and free — in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty & property … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Command, Constitutents, Every Government, Everyone, Expect, Fee, First Principles, Functionaries, Ignorant, Information, Liberty and Property, Nation, Press, Propensities, Read, Safe, Safe Deposit, The People, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: It Is Certainly True That A Popular Government Cannot Flourish Without Virtue In the People
“It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.” – Richard Henry Lee, letter to Colonel Martin Pickett, 1786
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A Poem for Patriots Day 2023
A Poem For Patriots Day 2023by Michael DoyleIn the heart of every patriot rests a songIn our love of country, under God, as we belongThe foundations are strong and pillars are highAs long as Old Glory ripples across the skyOther … Continue reading
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