Tag Archives: Thomas Jefferson

First Principles: We Have More Machinery of Government Than Is Necessary and Too Many Parasites Living On the Labor of the Industrious

Posted on August 29, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” – Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: Even Under the Best Forms of Government, Those Entrusted With Power Have Perverted It To Tyranny

Posted on August 28, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Experience hath shewn, That Even Under the Best Forms of Government, Those Entrusted With Power Have, In Time, and By Slow Operations, Perverted It To Tyranny.” – Thomas Jefferson Still think Obama understood the Constitutional law he lectured on? … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Dependence Begets Subservience and Venality

Posted on August 16, 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 Abolition of Slavery Is the Great Object of Desire In Our Early Republic

Posted on August 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.” – Thomas Jefferson On July 1, 2019, Charlottesville stripped it’s celebration of Thomas Jefferson’s birth from its holidays … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Once A Republic Is Corrupted, The Only Remedy Is to Remove the Corruption and Restore Its Lost Principles

Posted on July 31, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” – Thomas Jefferson … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Nothing Stops the Man With the Right Mental Attitude; Nothing Helps the Man Who Does Not

Posted on July 16, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: Honesty Is the First Chapter In the Book of Wisdom

Posted on July 6, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: Happy Fourth of July!

Posted on July 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson, in The Declaration of … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Power In Our Republic Is To Be Bound By the Chains of the Constitution

Posted on June 28, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1798)

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First Principles: Public Fund Expenditures Must Be Fully Accounted For

Posted on June 27, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.” – Thomas Jefferson (1808)

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