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America Is Good. |
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I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life. |
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God “The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” from George Washington’s first Inaugural address. |
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I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday. |
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Honesty “I hope that I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider to be the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” George Washington |
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The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government. |
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Marriage/Family “It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known.
By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family.” Thomas Jefferson |
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If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it. |
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Justice “I deem one of the essential principles of our government… equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.” Thomas Jefferson |
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I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results. |
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Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness “Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely to give him comfortable subsistence.” Thomas Jefferson |
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I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable. |
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Charity “It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer.” George Washington |
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It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion. |
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On your right to disagree “In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude; every man will speak as he thinks, or more properly without thinking.” George Washington |
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The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me. |
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Who works for whom? “I consider the people who constitute a society or a nation as the source of all authority in that nation.” Thomas Jefferson |
