We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the commitment and accountability individuals have towards each other in a collective endeavor.
Thomas Jefferson's quote reflects the foundational principles of mutual trust and responsibility that are essential in a society. By pledging their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor, individuals are promising to stand by one another, highlighting the importance of unity and integrity in achieving common goals, particularly in the context of a nation or community.
In practice
During a graduation speech to inspire teamwork among graduates.
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.
It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.
If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like. ... But on the other hand, if somebody says, 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday,' you say, 'Fine, I respect that.'
We chart delusions through collective agreement.
No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.
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