“[E]rror of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.”

Thomas Jefferson

[I]f 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 may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.


Year: 1801
Context: First Inaugural Address
Shortlink: http://fq1.us/48j

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