If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. Eloquence of the United States - Página 801827Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| James F. Simon - 2003 - 356 páginas
...evidence as he accepted harsh political dissent as both the price and strength of a vibrant democracy. "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve...opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." And he applauded Americans, prematurely, for having the conviction to eliminate all... | |
| Bereket Habte Selassie - 2003 - 358 páginas
...laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.. If there be any among us who wish to destroy this union, or to change its republican form, let...opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. (THOMAS JEFFERSON, INAUGURAL ADDRESS, 1801) Writing the First Draft There are two principal... | |
| Seymour Bernard Sarason - 2003 - 320 páginas
...In his first inaugural address, Jefferson said, "If there be any among us who would wish to destroy this union or to change its republican form, let them...monuments of the safety with which error of opinion can be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." And it was Jefferson who near the end of... | |
| Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman - 2003 - 284 páginas
...opinions that were "false, scandalous, and malicious," ought to be allowed, as Jefferson put it, to "stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with...opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.'01 The Federalists were incredulous. "How . . . could the rights of the people require... | |
| Stephen Howard Browne - 2003 - 180 páginas
...willingly acceded to the Jeffersonian persuasion, or one relinquished title to republican citizenship. "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form," Jefferson declares, "let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion... | |
| John E. Ferling - 2003 - 582 páginas
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| W. Speed Hill, Edward Burns - 2003 - 482 páginas
...but dreary things . . . but every difference of opinion, is not a difference of principle, we have called by different names brethren of the same principle, we are all republicans: we are all federalists. The words are timeless and universal — "the voice of the nation"; "common efforts for the common... | |
| Michael Waldman - 363 páginas
...reached to his political foes. "[Ejvery difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists." In his original handwritten text, those party names were not capitalized; editors who reprinted it... | |
| Merrill D. Peterson, Robert C. Vaughan - 2003 - 396 páginas
...intolerance." He continued: "Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we arc all Federalists." He made religion in America the paradigm for politics. Replace "opinion" with... | |
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