Tag Archives: Virtue

Thought For the Day: In Planning For Posterity, It Is Important To Remember That Virtue Is Not Hereditary

Posted on May 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.” – Thomas Paine

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First Principles: Political Freedom Includes In It Every Other Blessing

Posted on May 18, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Political freedom includes in it every other blessing. All the pleasures of riches, science, virtue, and even religion itself derive their value from liberty alone. No wonder therefore wise and prudent legislators have in all ages been held in such … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Ambitious Who Embrace the Image of Virtue But Not Virtue Itself, Produce Ugly Deeds

Posted on May 10, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Ambitious men, who embrace the image and not the reality of virtue, produce nothing but ugly deeds.” – Plutarch, Lives of Noble Romans

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First Principles: Liberty Is Not Easily Surrendered Where Knowledge Is Diffused and Virtue Is Preserved

Posted on May 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd.” – Samuel Adams (1775)

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First Principles: A Corrupt Press Deceives, Inflames, Dishonors Virtue, Stokes the Flames of Faction and Ends Its Own Enemy

Posted on April 26, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press. It is however, the prostituted companion of liberty, and somehow or other, we know not how, its efficient auxiliary. It follows the substance like its shade; but while … Continue reading →

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First Principles: We Must Never Allow Partiality or Extraneous Matters To Interfere With the Electoral Process

Posted on March 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” – John Adams (1797) … Continue reading →

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Thought of the Day: We Laugh At Honor and Are Shocked To Find Traitors In our Midst

Posted on March 15, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” – C.S. Lewis

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First Principles: Diffusion of Virtue and Knowledge Is Our Security From Ever Being Enslaved

Posted on March 13, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“If Virtue & Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslav’d. This will be their great Security.” – Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, February 12, 1779

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First Principles: It’s Up To All Americans To Stop the Spread of Principles Counter To Our Civil and Religious Rights

Posted on February 11, 2019 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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The Dissolution of Liberal Democracy

Posted on February 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Not so long ago, it was announced with great fanfare that history had ended and Liberal Democracy had won. The globalists believed there was no most struggle and that it made little difference with we made microchips or potato chips. … Continue reading →

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