Tag Archives: Tyranny

First Principles: Our Values Must Be Guarded By All Vigilant Citizens

Posted on October 8, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people … Continue reading →

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First Principles: It Is Essential To Our Republic To Bear Arms and Know How To Use Them

Posted on October 6, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them… The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Right To Bear Arms Is Grounded On Opposition To Tyranny

Posted on September 29, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are … 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: Resist the Tyranny That Would Attempt To Take Inalienable Rights

Posted on August 6, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual…continue steadfast and with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.” – John … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Accumulation of Power Into the Hands of the Few Leads To Tyranny

Posted on July 9, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. “ – James Madison, in Federalist … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Liberty Is Rightfully Constrained By the Rights of Others

Posted on July 2, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“… (R)ightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our own will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Democracy Leads To Tyranny

Posted on June 26, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Resistance To Tyranny Is Everyone’s Duty

Posted on June 12, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual…Continue steadfast and , with a proper sense of dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which haven gave, an no man ought to take from us.” – John … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Tyranny Is Not Easily Conquered

Posted on June 1, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” —Thomas Paine, American Crisis, No. 1, 1776 Shortly before the Battle of Trenton, Thomas Paine wrote … Continue reading →

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