Tag Archives: Thomas Jefferson

First Principles: Be Just Friends and Brave Enemies

Posted on August 12, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved. But whensoever hostile aggressions require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Fight Every Tyranny Over the Mind of Man

Posted on August 11, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” – Thomas Jefferson All ideas should be open for discussion in a free market place of ideas. This is the … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Perpetual Public Debt Brings Servitude of the People

Posted on August 7, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“I place economy among the first and important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Republic Is the Only Government Not At War With Man

Posted on August 4, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.” —Thomas Jefferson (1790)

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First Principles: The Spirit of the People Preserves Our Republic’s Vigor

Posted on July 29, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Better Too Much Liberty Than Too Little

Posted on July 26, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” — Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Archibald Stuart – 1791)

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First Principles: This Republic Has Freedom of Religion; Not From

Posted on July 22, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not … Continue reading →

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First Principles: When Media Lies It Becomes Impotent

Posted on July 20, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth.” – Thomas Jefferson (1805) Increasingly, we … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Honest Friendship With All, Entanglements With None

Posted on July 13, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations…entangling alliances with none” – Thomas Jefferson Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address can be read in its entirety here: http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres16.html

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Thought For the Day: The United States Declaration of Independence

Posted on July 4, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

The Declaration of Independence declared this on behalf of the rebellious thirteen American colonies from the Kingdom of Great Britain as thirteen sovereign states that joined together as the United States of America. Most of us celebrate this on July 4, 1776. … Continue reading →

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