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. The Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson - Page 527by Thomas Edward Watson - 1903 - 534 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1801 - 446 pages
...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...some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong— that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the... | |
| William Cobbett - United States - 1801 - 358 pages
...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...combat it. I know, indeed, that some honest men fear th.it a republican government cannot be strong, that this government is not strong enough. But would... | |
| English poetry - 1802 - 888 pages
...any among us who would wish to dissolve tbis union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may 'be tplerated where reason is Jeft free to combat it. I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a... | |
| 1802 - 886 pages
...left free to combat it. ^ know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government tannot be strong — that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest, in the full title of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and... | |
| John Davis - United States - 1803 - 470 pages
...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...some honest men, " fear that a Republican Government cannot " be strong,—that this Government is not strong " enough. But would the honest, in the full... | |
| United States. President - Presidents - 1805 - 276 pages
...this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the sufcty with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where...combat it. I know indeed that some honest men fear ;hat a republican government cannot be strong ; that this government is not strong enough. But would... | |
| Jacob Franklin Heston - Political science - 1811 - 416 pages
...wise, lenient, and pacific administration, we enjoyed the most unexampled prosperity, and " witnessed the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it." After so many heart saddening instances of the infamous and cruel success of monarchs... | |
| 1821 - 454 pages
...business of the state to judge them— theii religion is an affair between them and their Ma st:md as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, when reason is left "ree to combat it." It cannot do harm to invest them with the enjoyment of every... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 548 pages
...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...some honest men fear that a republican government cannot be strong ; that this government is not strong enough. But would the honest patriot, in the... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 528 pages
...to the desperation of their cause, and their security from punishment, he has said, " let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety, with which...opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it." Under these auspicious circumstances, I proceed to the discussion of the important question... | |
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