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First Principles: A Good Moral Character Is the First Essential In A Person
“A good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should … Continue reading
First Principles: We Should Be Unfaithful To Ourselves If We Should Ever Lose Sight of the Danger to Our Liberties If Anything…Should Infect the Purity of Our Free…and Independent Elections
“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)
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Tagged Danger To Our Liberties, Elections, Extraneous, Fair, First Principles, Free, Independent, Infect, John Adams, Lose Sight, Partial, Purity, To Ourselves, Unfaithful, Virtuous
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First Principles: A Good Moral Character Is the First Essential In A Man
“A good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life.” – George Washington (1790)
First Principles: We Should Be Unfaithful To Ourselves If We Should Ever Lose Sight of the Danger To Our Liberties If Anything Partial…Should Infect the Purity of Our Free…and Independent Elections
“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)
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Tagged Danger, Elections, Extraneous, Fair, First Principles, Free, Independent, Infect, John Adams, Liberties, Lose Sight, Partial, Purity, Selves, Unfaithful, Virtuous
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First Principles: The Aim of Every Political Constitution Is, Or Ought To Be, First To Obtain For Rulers Men Who Possess Most Wisdom To Discern and Most Virtue To Pursue the Common Good of the Society
“The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aim, Common Good, Continue, Discern, Effectual Precautions, First Principles, Hold, James Madison, Keep, Obtain, Political Constitution, Possess, Public Trust, Rules, Society, Virtue, Virtuous, Wisdom
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First Principles: We Should Be Unfaithful To Ourselves If We Should Ever Lose Sight of the Danger To Our Liberties If Anything Partial…Infect the Purity of Our Free…Elections
“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)
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Tagged Danger, Elections, Extraneous, Fair, First Principles, Free, Independent, Infect, John Adams, Liberties, Lose Sight, Ourselves, Partial, Purity, Unfaithful, Virtuous, We
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Thought For the Day: It Is Not the Business of Government To Make Men Virtuous Or Religious, Or to Preserve the Fool From the Consequences of His Own Folly
“It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aggression, Consequence, Equal Rights, Fool, Government, Henry George, Liberty, Make, Mankind, No Further, Not the Business, Own Folly, Part of Others, Preserve, Protecting, Religious, Repressive, Secure, Than Necessary, Thought For the Day, Virtuous
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First Principles: America Should Be A Land of Safe and Agreeable Asylum To the Virtuous and Persecuted, Whatever Nation They May Come From
“I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.” – George Washington
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First Principles: Endeavor Not Only To Be Learned But Virtuous
“A good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should … Continue reading
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Tagged Character, Conduct, Endeavor, Essential, First Principles, George Washington, Good, Habit, Important, Indelible, Learned, Life, Mankind, Moral, Stamp, Virtuous
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First Principles: The Life of the Nation Is Secure Only While The Nation Is Honest, Truthful and Virtuous
“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.” – Frederick Douglass
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