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First Principles: War Is When the Government Tells You Who the Bad Guy Is. Revolution Is When You Decide That For Yourself
” War Is When the Government Tells You Who the Bad Guy Is. Revolution Is When You Decide That For Yourself” – Benjamin Franklin
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First Principles: Be At War With Your Vices, At Peace With Your Neighbors and Let Every New Year Find You A Better Man
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin
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First Principles: To Be Prepared For War Is One of the Most Effectual Means of Preserving Peace
“To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” -George Washington (1790)
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First Principles: To Be Prepared For War Is One of the Most Effectual Means of Preserving Peace
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” – George Washington
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The Greater the Miracles
The Greater the Miraclesby Michael DoyleReligion it seems is love’s emotionPersonified and adhered to with devotionFor a person who lives life without reasonHas committed the most personal of treasonsIn the Grand Inquisitor we find rarified poetryIn which passions are taken … Continue reading
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Tagged Aching, Again, Arise, Astray, Atone, Belief, Burn, Capability, Constants, Desire, Despotism, Devil, Devotion, Divine, Easily Led, Edge, Emotion, Fable, Faith, Fed, Freedom, Grave, Greater, Hate, Hell, Heresy, Himself, History, Jesus, Keys to the Kingdom, Kind, Late, Laugh, Lessons, Life, Live by Bread Alone, Live Life, Living, Love, Man, Miracles, Mistake, Mystery, Not Hate, Passion, Photograph, Piety, Play, Poem, Poetry, Power, Random Chances, Rare, Religion, Responsibility, Save, Second Chance, Seek, Strife, Suffer the Children, Temporal, Temptation, The Grand Inquisitor, Three Days, Treason, True Sign, Turn, War, Water Into Wine, Ways of Love, Without Reason, Work Miracles
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The Chicago Seven and Liberty
The Chicago Seven and Libertyby Michael DoyleThe American soul was in desperate measurePoisoned and depleted of blood and lost treasureFor the sake of a war that people didn’t understandOur republic’s principles died for in a foreign landThe Vietnam draft and … Continue reading
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Halloween: Daughters of Salem
Daughters of Salemby Michael DoyleIn the misted realm of nightmaresBeyond the screens of our daily careThe daughters of Salem tossIn their graveyards of the crooked crossHidden tears masked by blood stainsThat cannot wash away with the cold rainsIs the fear … Continue reading
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Tagged Again and Again, All, Angel, Autumn, Bittersweet, Blood Stains, Broken Wing, Cohort, Cold Rain, Corridor, Crooked, Cross, Crypt, Daily Care, Dark, Darkness, Daughters, Destiny, Don't Really Know, Doom, Dread, Fall, Fate, Fear, Final Choice, Find, Forms, God, Graveyards, Halloween, Heaven, Hellions, Heresy, Hounds of Hell, Leaves, Life, Light, Locked Room, Lucifer, Make, Mercy, Minds, Mortuary, Nightmare, Open, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pours Out, Pray, Present, Rage, Realm, Rebellion, Resist, Rock-n-Roll, Sake, Salem, Sanctuary, Screen, Seal, Secrets, Seek, Sin, Skull, Tears, The Master's Call, Tug, Voice, Wages, Wait, War, Wash Away, Watch, Whisper
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First Principles: The Republican Is the Only Form of Government Which Is Not Eternally At Open Or Secret War With the Rights of Mankind
“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.” – Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Hunter, 1790
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Tagged Eternally, First Principles, Form of Government, Open, Republican, Rights of Mankind, Secret, Thomas Jefferson, War
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First Principles: A Man Who Has Nothing For Which He Is Willing To Fight, Nothing Which Is More Important Than His Own Personal Safety, Is A Miserable Creature and Has No Chance of Being Free Unless Made and Kept So By the Exertions of Better Men
“War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is … Continue reading
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First Principles: Freedom…Will…Abide…So Long As the Principles By Which It Was Acquired Are Held Sacred
“Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.” – Edward Everett (1794-1865)
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