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
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.
I say it in the writers' room all the time: My black is not your black. What's terrifying is that, just the same way we've all accepted that normal is white, everybody seems to buy into the idea that there's only one way to be black or one way to be Hispanic. That's as damaging as anything else.
After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.
The excitement of life is in the numinous experience wherein we are given to each other in that larger celebration of existence in which all things attain their highest expression, for the universe, by definition, is a single gorgeous celebratory event.
He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by means of love, fights with pleasure and confidence; he resists equally one or many men, and scarcely needs at all the help of fortune. Those whom he conquers yield joyfully
God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.
I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.
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