Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address
4 March 1801
error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
MS (DLC 110: 18836–7). Transcription based on text published in Washington National Intelligencer, 4 Mar. 1801, and Jefferson’s manuscript (DLC 110: 18836–7). Published in PTJ, 33:134–52.