If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.
John DickinsonRead
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Unity is essential for strength and success, while division leads to failure.
This quote by John Dickinson emphasizes the importance of solidarity among individuals, particularly in the context of a nation. It suggests that by coming together and supporting each other, people can achieve great things and overcome challenges, whereas separation and disunity can lead to downfall and weakness.
Themes
UnityStrengthCourageSolidarityTogetherness
In practice
Example use cases
During a community meeting to address local issues, this quote can motivate people to work together for a common cause.
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No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have a constitutional check upon the administration, which may thereby by brought into order without violence. But when such a power is not lodged in the people, oppression proceeds uncontrolled in its career, till the governed, transported into rage, seek redress in the midst of blood and confusion.
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The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.
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Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits.
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