The 9 Principles
1.
America Is Good.
2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life. 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.
3. I must
always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday. 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.
4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate
authority, not the government. 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.
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind
and no one is above it. 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.
6. I have a right to life,
liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
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.
7. I work hard for what I
have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be
charitable. Charity “It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity;
all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer.” George
Washington .
8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or
to share my personal opinion. 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.
9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me. 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. |
