 | Bereket Habte Selassie - Constitutional history - 2003 - 358 pages
...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 - Education - 2003 - 320 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 284 pages
...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 - Political Science - 2003 - 180 pages
...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... | |
 | R. B. Bernstein - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 258 pages
...different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans, we are all federalists. If there by any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union...some honest men fear that a republican government can not be strong, that this government is not strong enough; but would the honest patriot, in the... | |
 | Phillip E. Hammond, David W. Machacek, Eric Michael Mazur - Law - 2004 - 204 pages
...Virginia bill establishing religious freedom, reiterated the point in his first inaugural address: If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this...opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. (Quoted in Rogge 1960: 25) In no uncertain terms, these Founders were saying that dissent... | |
 | Julian E. Zelizer - Political Science - 2004 - 800 pages
...the men convicted under that law. In his first inaugural address, Jefferson eloquently argued: "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this...opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." This defense of public debate also implicitly legitimized political parties, which depended... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
