But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We h…

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But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). The Essential Jefferson, p.56, Hackett Publishing
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But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). The Essential Jefferson, p.56, Hackett Publishing

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