It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.
It were not best that we should all think alike.
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.
There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.
There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.
I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
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.
In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.
We dont think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but well not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.
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