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First Principles: Let There Be No Change By Usurpation; For Though This, In One Instance, May Be the Instrument of the Good, It Is the Customary Weapon By Which Free Governments Are Destroyed
“If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, Destruction, First Principles, Free Government, George Wshington, Good, Instrument, One Instance, Usurpation, Weapon
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Thought For the Day: It May Sound Trite, But Using the Weapons of the Enemy, No Matter How Good One’s Intentions, Makes One the Enemy
“It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one’s intentions, makes one the enemy.” – Charles de Lint, writer and folk musician (b. 22 Dec 1951
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Thought For the Day: The Most Potent Weapon In the Hands of the Oppressor Is the Mind of the Oppressed
“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” – Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist (18 Dec 1946-1977)
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First Principles: The Fetters Imposed On Liberty At Home Have Been Forged Out of the Weapons Provided For Defense Against Real, Pretended, Or Imaginary Dangers From Abroad
“The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.” – James Madison, 4th US president (16 Mar 1751-1836)
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Tagged Abroad, Danger, Defense, Fetters, First Principles, Forge, Home, Imaginary, James Madison, Liberty, Pretend, Real, Weapon
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Thought For the Day: Contempt Is the Weapon of the Weak and A Defense Against One’s Own Despised and Unwanted Feelings
“Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one’s own despised and unwanted feelings.” – Alice Miller, psychologist and author (1923-2010)
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Thought For the Day: Create Now A Political Court To Echo the Ideas of the Executive and You Have Created A Weapon…That Can Cut Down Those Guarantees of Liberty…and Extinguish Your Right of Liberty, of Speech, of Thought, of Action and of Religion
“Create now a political court to echo the ideas of the executive and you have created a weapon . . . that can cut down those guarantees of liberty written into your great documents by the blood of your forefathers … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Burton K. Wheeler, Create, Cut Down, Echo, Executive, Extinguish, Gurantees, Ideas, Liberty, Packing the Court, Political Court, Religion, Right, Speech, Thought, Thought For the Day, Weapon
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Thought For the Day: There Is No Weapon As Formidable As Will and More Courage of A Free People
“No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.” – Ronald Reagan
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