Prophetically Speaking…
Wednesday February 20th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“In the general course of human nature, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.” Alexander Hamilton, (1757-1804) American statesman, Secretary of the Treasury, Source: The Federalist No. 79. Source Reference Alexander Hamilton Quote
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Tuesday February 19th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“You are not what you think you are; What you think – you are.” Red Pritchard. Source Reference Red Pritchard Quote
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Monday February 18th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Thoughts are free and are subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature.” Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus, [Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim] (1493-1541). Source Reference Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus Quote
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Friday February 15th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each…
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Thursday February 14th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“I tell you true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.” William Wallace, Scottish patriot, led a revolution against England’s King Edward I [Longshanks] c. 1300. Source Reference William Wallace Quote
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Wednesday February 13th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“If I want to be free from any other man’s dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.” William Graham Sumner, (1840-1910) American academic and professor at Yale College. Source Reference William Graham Sumner Quote
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Tuesday February 12th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim – or arrogation – of power to stifle the autonomy of others.” Thomas Sowell, (1930-…
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Monday February 11th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Tis the upright mind that holds true sovereignty.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca, (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, “Seneca the Younger.” Source: Tragedies, Thyestes, line 380; (Chorus). Source Reference Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quote
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Thursday February 7th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man…
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Wednesday February 6th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.” John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist. Source Reference John Stuart Mill Quote
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Tuesday February 5th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“We may safely rely on the disposition of the State legislatures to erect barriers against the encroachments of the national authority.” Alexander Hamilton, (1757-1804) American statesman, Secretary of the Treasury. Source: The Federalist Papers Federalist No. 85. Source Reference Alexander Hamilton Quote
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Monday February 4th, 2019 in Briefings, Prophetically Speaking“Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly restrained Congress at all. Instead it has progressively stripped the states of their traditional powers,…
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