[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.
Interpretation
Stand strong against any threats to people's rights.
This quote by Thomas Jefferson emphasizes the importance of defending individual rights with steadfastness and bravery. It urges individuals to confront any attempts to undermine freedoms, highlighting that courage is essential in protecting the liberties of the people.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech about civil rights.
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
We 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.
Sometimes, people call my way of speaking ranting. Why are you always ranting and screaming, they ask. But here’s the thing…the reason why I rant is because I am a voice for many women that cannot speak out to heads of state, UN officials, and those that influence systems of oppression. And so I rant. And I will not stop ranting until my mission of equality of all girls is achieved.
I miss singing every day. I can't sing anymore. My voice doesn't work. I have Parkinson's disease, and it sometimes takes my words away from me.
Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.
For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.
What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
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