...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. He addressed Federalist fears that human fallibility and depravity...

..."false, scandalous, and malicious," ought to be allowed, as Jefferson put it, to "stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."60 The Federalists were incredulous. "How . . . could the rights...

...among us who 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 when reason is left free to combat it." Self-government is "the strongest government on earth" because...

...wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form," he advises, "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." There are no "angels" in government to make decisions about...

...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. Writing to William Cabell Rives on December 23, 1832, James...

...who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed u 2 b \| \ 3 ` ήTO ) P MXPS % ( (81V r5 [B <M 9 where reason is left free to combat it. PHILIP A. DYNIA References and Further Reading Chesney, Robert...

...174. to change its republican form," Jefferson's first inaugural asserted, "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."2 The leading opponents of slavery in antebellum America enthusiastically...

...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 of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. 5 57 Jefferson immediately pardoned all who had been convicted...

...would wish to dissolve this Union, or to challenge 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." He then restated his political principles in centrist terms: neutrality...

...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. I know indeed that some honest men fear that a republican government...