| William Lyne Wilson - 1888 - 676 pages
...can be tolerated where reason is fcft free, to combat it. I know, indeed, that some honest mea, feac that a republican government cannot be strong;- that this government is not strong enough. But wcvU1W the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful expevinjent, abandon a government which has... | |
| Erastus Otis Haven - United States - 1888 - 602 pages
...would wish to dissolve thi; Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, uu • disturbed, as monuments of the safety with which ERROR OF OPINION MAY BE TOLERATED, WHERE REASON 18 LEFT FREK 10 COMBAT IT." His administration was so popular that, at its close, he was elected for... | |
| Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...Resolv'd on Death or Liberty. THOMAS JEFFERSON FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS If there be any among us who wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican...opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was, like Benjamin Franklin, a man of diverse talents. He... | |
| Paul I. Weizer - Law - 2000 - 184 pages
...in this area. He felt that anyone should be able to speak their will: 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.4 Justice William O. Douglas thought of this as a bold step into... | |
| Michael Kent Curtis - History - 2000 - 544 pages
...first inaugural address, Jefferson said that if there were any who wished to dissolve the Union or change its republican form, "[l]et them stand undisturbed...opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it."76 Nevertheless, Jefferson believed printers could be liable for false facts. As he put... | |
| Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans — we are all federalists. 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."0... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - History - 2000 - 184 pages
...extreme forms of political dissent: "If there be any among us who would dissolve the Union or * * * change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed...which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left to combat it." As Justice Louis Brandeis observed, "those who won our independence eschewed... | |
| Peter S. Onuf - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 276 pages
...emphasized this distinction between leaders and followers in his Inaugural Address, when he urged that those "among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form" be left to "stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - History - 2000 - 186 pages
...Jefferson in his own first Inaugural Address. It was Jefferson's straightforward view that — "If there be any 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... | |
| Thomas Jefferson, Noble E. Cunningham - History - 2001 - 132 pages
...different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans: we are all federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change it's republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion... | |
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