...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...

...345 reunify the country that had been polarized by the struggle to elect its Chief Executive, We have called by different names brethren of the same principle....opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.15 To disclose the foreign policy he intended to pursue, he said, "honest friendship with...

...proclamation, "We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists." This is followed by his Miltonian sentiment, "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve...undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinions may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." This is, in effect, a sequel for...

...are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to challenge its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as...opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free." He then restated his political principles in centrist terms: neutrality abroad, the freedom of religion...

...difference of principle," Jefferson cautioned in a statement calculated to reach out to moderates. "We are all Republicans: We are all Federalists. If...among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to challenge its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error...

...conciliation, famously stating, "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." However, as various historians have noted, Jefferson did not intend to suggest that Federalist views...

...partisan election in 1800, "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 are all Federalists." We should not expect that simply by examining issues in light of the First Principles and our history...

...in the second paragraph, "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." Ellis among others downplays the conciliatory significance of this statement by stressing that Jefferson...

...political debate: "Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle," he maintained. "We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists."222 It has been demonstrated that this was not merely a rhetorical unification as is customary...