Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of unity among diverse groups while safeguarding freedoms.
Thomas Jefferson's quote highlights the necessity of defending individual liberties while fostering a sense of unity among people from various backgrounds and cultures. It speaks to the vision of creating a cohesive society that respects and integrates its diverse origins, encouraging collaboration and solidarity among its members to uphold shared values of freedom and democracy.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech at a multicultural festival to highlight the importance of unity in diversity.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
βWe must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Revolt is the right of the people
I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had.β He turned to face the hall, that sea of pale faces. βI wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. I am innocent, but I will get no justice here.
For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are elements of human languages, and that languages are human creations.~ The suggestion that truth~ is out there is a legacy of an age in which the world was seen as the creation of a being who had a language his own.
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