Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

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Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson asked himself In what country on earth would you rather live He first answered Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. But he continued which would be your second choice His answer France.

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But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

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The opinions of men are not the object of civil government nor under its jurisdiction.

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No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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