If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change i…

Thomas Jefferson
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If there be any among us who 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. ✨ First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801
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If there be any among us who 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. ✨ First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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