Thomas Jefferson Quote

In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these, for the most part, must prevail over the other for a longer or shorter time.


Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph (ed. 1829)


In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of...

In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of...

In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of...

In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of...