[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
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.
To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.
I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am - Somebody! I may be uneducated, but I am - Somebody! I must be, I'm God's child. I must be respected and protected. I am black and I am beautiful! I am - Somebody! Soul Power!
I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.
I really want to help stop violence toward women.
What do you have to fear? Nothing. Whom do you have to fear? No one. Why? Because whoever has joined forces with God obtains three great privileges: omnipotence without power, intoxication without wine, and life without death.
My intention is to ask the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.
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