Tag Archives: Thomas Jefferson

First Principles: Love Your Neighbor As Yourself and Your Country More Than Yourself

Posted on July 3, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.” – Thomas Jefferson (1825)

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First Principles: On Every Question of Construction Carry Ourselves Back To the Time When the Constitution Was Adopted, Recollect the Spirit Manifested In the Debates

Posted on June 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, … 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

Posted on June 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“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 Care of Human Life and Happiness, and Not Their Destruction, Is the First and Only Legitimate Object of Good Government

Posted on June 24, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson (1809)

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First Principles: A Free People (Claim) Their Rights As Derived From the Laws of Nature, and Not As the Gift of Their Chief Magistrate

Posted on June 22, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.” – Thomas Jefferson (1774)

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First Principles: He Who Permits Himself To Tell A Lie Once, Finds It…Becomes Habitual

Posted on June 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.” – … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Were We Directed From Washington When To Sow, and When To Reap, We Should Soon Want Bread

Posted on June 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.” – Thomas Jefferson (1821)

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First Principles: I, However, Place Economy Among the First and Most Important Republican Virtues, and Public Debt As the Greatest of the Dangers To Be Feared

Posted on May 31, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.”– Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: If We Move In Mass, Be It Ever So Circuitously, We Shall Attain Our Object

Posted on May 28, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Honor, Justice, and Humanity, Forbid Us Tamely To Surrender That Freedom Which We Received From Our Gallant Ancestors

Posted on May 27, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding … Continue reading →

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