...do well enough if she were once left to shift for herself" (Locke); " [Let critics of the republic] stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion maybe tolerated where reason is left free to combat it" (Jefferson); "If all mankind minus one were...

...consolidated and strong. In his first inaugural address on March 4, 1801, Thomas Jefferson stated: If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve...opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. Writing to William Cabell Rives on December 23, 1832, James Madiso n said: It is high...

...difference of principle. . . .We are all republicans — we are all federalists. . . . If there beany < w q y0 5 f $x ` + ݫ ܝ a<UN= WE ` ...H А tw d L ۾ 7 ] ė Z ]֨ 7Z| - ě 7`䭱N to combat it. PHILIP A. DYNIA References and Further Reading Chesney, Robert M., Democratic-Republican...

...and bloody persecutions. . . . Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle....among us who would wish to dissolve this union or change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error...

...monarchic unionists, monarchic secessionists, or republican secessionists. "If there be any among us who wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican...safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated when reason is left free to combat it." Self-government is "the strongest government on earth" because...

...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."60 The Federalists were incredulous. "How . . . could the rights of the people require...

...common good that he espouses and will seek to destroy rather than build. What is to be done with them? "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form," he advises, "let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may...

...truce to his political enemies: "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." Jefferson exited the Capitol without fanfare and returned to his lodgings at Conrad & McMunn's boardinghouse....

...famous appeal to unite as one: ...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. Readers of the original speech would see the subtle distinction inaccessible to the listening audience....

...Workman proclaimed in the first treatise on expression rights published in the United States.268 " If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or 262 Curtis, "1859 Crisis," p. 1137. 2'53 Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, Federalist Papers, p. 33. 2W Benjamin...