Tag Archives: Thomas Jefferson

First Principles: I Hope That We Shall Crush In Its Birth the Aristocracy of Our Monied Corporations Which Dare Already To Challenge Our Government To A Trial of Strength and Bid Defiance To the Laws of Our Country

Posted on September 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” – Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: Abuses of the Press and Media Are So Important To Freedom and Science As to Be Deeply Regrettable As These Tend To Lessen Its Usefulness and To Sap Its Safety

Posted on September 11, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and … Continue reading →

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First Principles: If We Can Prevent the Government From Wasting the Labors of the People, Under the Pretense of Taking Care of Them, They Must Become Happy

Posted on September 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.” – Thomas Jefferson (1802)

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First Principles: It Is the Duty of Every Good Citizen To Use All the Opportunities Which Occur To Him, For Preserving Documents Relating To the History of Our Country

Posted on August 25, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“It is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.” – Thomas Jefferson (1823)

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First Principles: The Declaration of Independence Rests … On The Harmonizing Sentiments of the Day, Whether Expressed In Conversation, In Letters, Printed Essays, Or In the Elementary Books of Public Right, As Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, Et al.

Posted on August 24, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“All [the] authority [of the Declaration of Independence] rests … on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether expressed in conversation, in letters, printed essays, or in the elementary books of public right, as Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, &c.” – Thomas Jefferson, … Continue reading →

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First Principles: With Those Who Wish To Think Amiss of Me, I Have Learned To Be Perfectly Indifferent

Posted on August 21, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learned to be perfectly indifferent; but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, and to need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be passive.” – … Continue reading →

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

Posted on August 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

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

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First Principles: We Must Make Our Election Between Economy and Liberty or Between Profusion and Servitude

Posted on August 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“We must make our election between economy and Liberty, or profusion and servitude.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)

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First Principles: I’m A Great Believer In Luck and I Find the Harder I Work the More I Have of It

Posted on August 7, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” ― Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: In A Public Life, A Man Whose Political Principles Have Any Decided Character and…Energy…To Give Them Effect Must Expect Political Hostility

Posted on July 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.” – Thomas Jefferson … Continue reading →

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