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Thought For the Day: No Man Can Put A Chain About the Ankle of His Fellow Man Without At Last Finding the Other End Fastened About His Own Neck
“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.” – Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
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Thought For the Day: Only In Washington, DC Do People Seem To Think That Spending Trillions More of Taxpayers’ Money Will Cure Our Problems, Let Alone Inflation
“For months, I have been ringing the alarm bell about inflation. Once again, we are witnessing that the threat of inflation is real. There is not a corner of this nation where hard-working families are able to escape the noticeable … Continue reading
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Tagged Cure, Inflation, Only, Problems, Senator Joe Manchin, Spend, Taxpayers' Money, Think, Thought For the Day, Trillions, Washington D.C.
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First Principles: When All Government Is Drawn To Washington, We Will Be Rendered Powerless To Check Oppression
“When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal … Continue reading
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Tagged Center, Checks, Domestic, First Principles, Foreign, Government, Great, Little, Oppressive, Power, Powerless, Thomas Jefferson, Venal, Washington D.C.
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End of the Frontier
Between the 1870s to the early 1900s, American society became a vast sea of sea change in matters of all forms of transformation going on at once. End of the Frontier by Michael Doyle The travesty of the Civil War … Continue reading
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An Expectancy of Government
A continuing look at American history: An Expectancy of Government by Michael Doyle Approaches as it had been in hesitancy No gave the Constitution great expectancy As a blue print for what had been built To house a people in … Continue reading
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First Principles: The More Powerful the Federal Government Grows, the Weaker the State Governments Become
“[W]hen all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to … Continue reading
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Tagged Centered, Charles Hammond, Checks, Federal, First Principles, Government, Powerless, Powers, State Government, Thomas Jefferson, Washington D.C.
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