Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the inevitability of freedom for certain people as predetermined by fate.
Thomas Jefferson's quote emphasizes the idea that the liberation of individuals or groups is destined to happen, suggesting that freedom is an essential and inescapable part of human existence. This perspective aligns with a belief in natural rights and the moral imperative to pursue liberty, asserting that no power can ultimately suppress the human desire for freedom.
In practice
This quote can be used during a speech advocating for 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.
As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation.
Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.
I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.
Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.
Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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