Tag Archives: Thomas Jefferson

First Principles: To Preserve the Republican Form and Principles of Our Constitution and Cleave To the Salutary Distribution of Powers… Are the Two Sheet Anchors of Our Union

Posted on February 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“To preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which [the Constitution] has established … are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in … Continue reading →

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

Posted on February 13, 2024 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: Science Has Liberated the Ideas of Those Who Read and Reflect, and the American Example Has Kindled Feelings of Right In the People

Posted on February 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people.” – Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: I Think Our Governments Will Remain Virtuous For Many Centuries; As Long As They Are Chiefly Agricultural

Posted on February 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.”– Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to James Madison (1787)

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First Principles: An Honest Man Can Feel No Pleasure In the Exercise of Power Over His Fellow Citizens

Posted on January 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.” – Thomas Jefferson (1813)

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First Principles: The Greatest Good We Can Do For Our Country Is To Heal Its Party Divisions and Make Them One People

Posted on January 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.” —Thomas Jefferson (1801)

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First Principles: I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God, Eternal Hostility Against Every Form of Tyranny Over the Mind of Man

Posted on January 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” – Thomas Jefferson (1800)

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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 January 19, 2024 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: I Think We Have More Machinery of Government Than Is Necessary, Too Many Parasites Living On the Labor of the Industrious

Posted on January 15, 2024 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 (1824)

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First Principles: There Is No Good Government But What Is Republican

Posted on January 11, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“There is no good government but what is republican.” – John Adams (1776)

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