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First Principles: To Move Even A Step Beyond the Prescribed Powers Of Congress Is to Create Power No Longer Susceptible to Definition
“To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.” – Thomas Jefferson
First Principles: There Has Never Been A Democracy That Did Not Commit Suicide
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” – John Adams (and that’s why we’re a republic and not a democracy says every right thinking … Continue reading
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First Principles: Can the Liberties of A Nation Be Secure When The Conviction That the Liberties Are A Gift From God?
“God who gave us life gave us liberty. 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 of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Basis, Conviction, Country, First Principles, Gift of God, God, Just, Justice, Liberty, Life, Mind, Nation, Reflect, Secure, Sleep, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Tremble, Violated, Wrath
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First Principles: Falseness of the Tongue Leads To That of the Heart
“It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe, Book of Wisdom, Contempt, Deprave, Disposition, Falsehood, First Chapter, First Principles, Habit, Heart, Honesty, Important, Lies, Resolution, Thomas Jefferson, Tongue, Truth, Unshaken, Untruth, Vice
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First Principles: A Wise and Frugal Government Restrains Its Citizens From Harming One Another But Otherwise Leaves Them Free
“A wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Greatest Good For Our Nation Is To Heal Party Divisions and Act As One People
“The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)
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First Principles: Our Liberties Are A Gift From God
“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 of the gift of God? That they are not to … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Great Principles of Right and Wrong Are Knowable By All Persons
“The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.” – Thomas Jefferson (1775)
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