Tag Archives: Thomas Jefferson

First Principles: There Is Hope That Younger Generations Impressed With the Flame of Liberty Will Sympathize With the Oppressed Wherever Found

Posted on January 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast … would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Though We Seek Peace, It Is Our Necessity To Provide For Defense By All Means

Posted on January 5, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Although our prospect is peace, our policy and purpose are to provide for defense by all those means to which our resources are competent.” – Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: When War Is Required, We Must Meet Our Duty To Convince the World That We are Just Friends and Brave Enemies

Posted on January 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Whensoever hostile aggressions…require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.” – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Andrew Jackson (December 3, 1806) It’s been going on for quite some … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Dependence Begets Subservience and Venality

Posted on December 27, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)

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First Principles: The God Who Gave Us Life Gave A Liberty

Posted on December 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?” – Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: The Safe Depository of the Ultimate Powers of American Society Is the People Themselves

Posted on December 16, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“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: Congress Consists Mainly of Attorneys Who Question Everything, Yield Nothing & Talk By the Hour

Posted on December 14, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150 … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Never Consider A Difference of Opinion In Politics, In Religion, In Philosophy, As Cause For Withdrawing From A Friend

Posted on December 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”– Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: The Endless Gratitude of Society Would Be Merited By Restraining Judges From Usurping Legislation

Posted on November 19, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.” – Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: Laws That Forbid the Carrying of Arms Disarm Only Those Who Are Neither Inclined Nor Determined To Commit Crimes

Posted on September 28, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve … Continue reading →

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