Tag Archives: Virtue

First Principles: A Nation Should Strive For Wisdom and Virtue In Its Example

Posted on February 26, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 36, 1788

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First Principles: Virtue Is the Foundation of A Free Constitution

Posted on February 3, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure virtue.” – John Adams (1776) A person seems to keep wanting me to say something more than the founders of our republic said. The choice posed to me is am I … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Diffusion of Knowledge and Virtue Secures Our Liberty

Posted on January 27, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security.” – Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1779

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First Principles: There Is An Indissoluble Union Between Doing Right and Gain

Posted on January 10, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“[T]here exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.” — … Continue reading →

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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Cicero – On Friendship

Posted on January 3, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Cicero was born on January 3, 106 B.C. The Roman politician and attorney Marcus Tullius Cicero was born on January 3, 106 BC and passed away on December 7, 43 BC. Coming from a wealthy family of the Roman … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Steady Employment and Regular Worship Is For the Nation’s Good

Posted on December 27, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“The almost general mediocrity of fortune that prevails in America obliging its people to follow some business for subsistence, those vices, that arise usually from idleness, are in a great measure prevented. Industry and constant employment are great preservatives of … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Christmas In Two Parts

Posted on December 9, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

A Tale of Christmas In Two Parts by Michael Romani I I have heard it said That you can eat ’til you’re full And it’s still not enough The excuse to be given “But, it’s Christmas…” And one really shouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Virtue In the Vicious

Posted on November 30, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

Virtue In the Vicious by Michael Romani I don’t want to start a rumor Especially not one that might prove a tumor Wracking its damage on our society But looking back on the pages of history I will stand true … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Public Debt Is the Biggest Danger To Our Republic

Posted on November 27, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“I … place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. … Taxation follows that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.” — Thomas Jefferson, in … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Government Formed On Virtue Leads To the Greatest Happiness

Posted on November 26, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?” — John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776 Thoughts … Continue reading →

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