 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1861 - 514 pages
...felt and feared by some, and less by others, and should divide opinions as to measures of safety ; but every difference of opinion is not a difference...republicans ; we are all federalists. If there be any among ns who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand, undisturbed,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1862 - 564 pages
...felt and feared by some, and less by others, — and should divide opinions as to measures of safety. But every difference of opinion is not a difference...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.... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Portraits, American - 1862 - 686 pages
...eye" — he proceeded to assuage the agitations of party. " Every difference of opinion," he said, "is not a difference of principle. We have called...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."... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - Kansas - 1862 - 440 pages
...rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression. ... If there would be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its representative form, let them, stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion... | |
 | Tammany Society, or Columbian Order (New York, N.Y.) - 1863 - 318 pages
...his first inaugural address, as to say : " If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve the 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."... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1865 - 974 pages
...persecutions" as those which "religious intolerance had produced." " Every difference of opinion," he declared, "is not a difference of principle. We have called...we are all Republicans : we are all Federalists." After inviting the people " to pursue with courage and confidence their own federal and republican... | |
 | W. Speed Hill, Edward Burns - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 482 pages
...intercourse that harmony & affection without which liberty, & even life itself, are but dreary things . . . but every difference of opinion, is not a difference...principle, we are all republicans: we are all federalists. The words are timeless and universal — "the voice of the nation"; "common efforts for the common... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...are but dreary things." In the speech's most quoted lines, he reached to his political foes. "[Ejvery difference of opinion is not a difference of principle....principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists." In his original handwritten text, those party names were not capitalized; editors who reprinted it... | |
 | Gary V. Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 268 pages
...most decisive sense — with respect to first principles — Republicans and Federalists were unified. "Every difference of opinion is not a difference of...the same principle. We are all republicans — we areall federalists."10 In a commentary on Jefferson's inaugural address, Harry Jaffa writes that "party... | |
 | James F. Simon - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 356 pages
...evidence as he accepted harsh political dissent as both the price and strength of a vibrant democracy. "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve...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."... | |
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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. 
