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Keeping Liberty's Flame: Spirit of the Republic
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Working to preserve the Sacred Fire of liberty and the Republican model of government, one day at a time. Monday, June 30, 2014. Spirit of the Republic. Virtue is the spirit of a republic; for where all power is derived from the people, all depends on their good disposition. If they are impious, factious and selfish; if they are abandoned to idleness, dissipation, luxury, and extravagance; if they are lost to the fear of God, and the love of their country, all is lost.". Samuel Cooper, Oct. 25, 1780.
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Keeping Liberty's Flame: January 2014
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Working to preserve the Sacred Fire of liberty and the Republican model of government, one day at a time. Wednesday, January 22, 2014. No man is entirely free from weakness and imperfection in this life. Men of the most exalted genius and active minds are generally most perfect slaves to the love of fame. They sometimes descend to as mean tricks and artifices in pursuit of honor or reputation as the miser descends to in pursuit of gold.". John Adams,diary entry; February 19th, 1756. November 22, 1787.
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Keeping Liberty's Flame: November 2013
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Working to preserve the Sacred Fire of liberty and the Republican model of government, one day at a time. Wednesday, November 27, 2013. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than to those attending too small a degree of it.". Sunday, November 24, 2013. The Way to Enslave. George Mason, debate in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 14, 1788. Wednesday, November 20, 2013. Original First Amendment Draft. James Madison; First Draft of the First Amendment. The sacred ...
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Keeping Liberty's Flame: Requirement of Neutrality
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Working to preserve the Sacred Fire of liberty and the Republican model of government, one day at a time. Sunday, June 29, 2014. 8220;The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.”. Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 11, 1787. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The View From My Kitchen Window. My Book of Common Days. The Chronicles of Morninside. Spirit of the Republic.
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Keeping Liberty's Flame: Virtue and Knowledge
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Working to preserve the Sacred Fire of liberty and the Republican model of government, one day at a time. Wednesday, July 2, 2014. 8220;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. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.". The View From My Kitchen Window. My Book of Common Days.
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Keeping Liberty's Flame: Sovereign States
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Working to preserve the Sacred Fire of liberty and the Republican model of government, one day at a time. Tuesday, July 1, 2014. 8220;In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them.”. Joseph Story Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The View From My Kitchen Window. My Book of Common Days.
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Keeping Liberty's Flame: October 2013
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Working to preserve the Sacred Fire of liberty and the Republican model of government, one day at a time. Sunday, October 27, 2013. The Duty of the Patriot. Wednesday, October 23, 2013. No human society has ever been able to maintain both order and freedom, both cohesiveness and liberty apart from the moral precepts of the Christian religion.Should our Republic ever forget this fundamental precept of government, this great experiment will then be surely doomed.". Sunday, October 20, 2013. 1 Those who fea...
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Keeping Liberty's Flame: July 2014
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Working to preserve the Sacred Fire of liberty and the Republican model of government, one day at a time. Sunday, July 13, 2014. To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.". Wednesday, July 9, 2014. George Washington, letter to David Stuart, Philadelphia, July 1, 1787. Sunday, July 6, 2014. George Washington, letter to Marquis de Lafayette, New York, June 3, 1790. Friday, July 4, 2014. He has refused to pass other...
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Keeping Liberty's Flame: April 2014
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Working to preserve the Sacred Fire of liberty and the Republican model of government, one day at a time. Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Delay is preferable to error.". Thomas Jefferson; letter to George Washington, 1792. Sunday, April 27, 2014. Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.". George Washington; New York, 1776. Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Sunday, April 20, 2014.
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Keeping Liberty's Flame: Happy Indeed
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Working to preserve the Sacred Fire of liberty and the Republican model of government, one day at a time. Wednesday, July 9, 2014. George Washington, letter to David Stuart, Philadelphia, July 1, 1787. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.". The View From My Kitchen Window. My Book of Common Days. The Chronicles of Morninside. There was an error in this gadget. The Declaration of Independence.