 | Geoffrey R. Stone - History - 2004 - 758 pages
...difference of principle. . . . We are all republicans— we are all federalists." Jefferson added, "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this...opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." Noting that the nation was "in the full tide of successful experiment," he conceded... | |
 | Theodore Sky - Law - 2003 - 460 pages
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 | David M. Kennedy - History - 2004 - 452 pages
...Messages and Papers of Woodrow Wilson, I, 444. Jefferson had said in his first inaugural address: "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this...republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments to the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."... | |
 | Robert E. Shalhope - History - 2004 - 220 pages
...Jefferson declared that all opinions, true or false, malicious or benevolent, should be allowed to "stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with...opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."45 Madison echoed these sentiments when he observed that "some degree of abuse is inseparable... | |
 | Micheline Ishay - History - 2004 - 461 pages
...the Union or to change its republican form," he claimed, "let them stand undisturbed as monuments of safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."42 When the threat of war passed, the Sedition Act was repealed and freedom of the press... | |
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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. 
