One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
Our country's motto is e pluribus unum: out of many, we are one. Will we stay true to that motto?
Ideals are the world's masters.
'E pluribus unum' is perhaps the most obnoxious motto the Founders could have come up with, as far as liberals are concerned. They don't mind the e pluribus part - they love to note the things that divide and separate us. But they positively despise the unum part.
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.