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First Principles: To All Persons – Exact and Equal Justice

Posted on June 4, 2018 by

“It is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government… Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever persuasion, religious or political.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)          

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First Principles: All the World Is Better With Commerce At Perfect Liberty

Posted on May 30, 2018 by

“I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.”  – Thomas Jefferson    

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First Thoughts: America’s Fundamental Principle Amounts To Equal Treatment Under the Law for All Persons

Posted on May 28, 2018 by

“[I]t is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government… Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever persuasion, religious or political.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)        

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First Principles: The Advantage of Being Armed Is What Gives the People Our Ultimate Authority

Posted on May 27, 2018 by

“The ultimate authority … resides in the people alone. … [T]he advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any…” … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Safe Depository of Constitutional Powers Are the People

Posted on May 22, 2018 by

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Truth Can Stand For Itself

Posted on May 20, 2018 by

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)      

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First Principles: The Republican Form of Government Is the Only Form of Government Not At War With the Rights of Man

Posted on May 18, 2018 by

“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”  – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Hunter, 1790    

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First Principles: Never Abandon Reason

Posted on May 16, 2018 by

“Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the spot of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Be Unshakeable In Telling the Truth

Posted on May 12, 2018 by

“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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First Principles: We Must Not Allow Our Nation To Be In Perpetual Debt

Posted on May 8, 2018 by

“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)        

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