Tag Archives: Virtue

Thought For the Day: Whether Prince or Pauper, All Are Prone To Abuse Power If Not Guided By Love of Truth and Virtue

Posted on July 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.” – Jean de la Fontaine, poet and fabulist (8 Jul … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Let Knowledge and Virtue Enable Your Motives Through Life In Acting To Relieve the Distressed, Detect Fraud, Defeat Oppression and Diffuse Happiness

Posted on June 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Nothing Is of More Importance For Our Nation’s Well-Being Than To Form and Train Up Youth In Wisdom and Virtue

Posted on June 14, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“… (N)othing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue…. I think also, general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than … Continue reading →

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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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