“Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion…”

Thomas Jefferson

Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish.


Year: 1803
Context: Letter to John Randolph
Shortlink: http://fq1.us/47

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