...partisan election in 1800, "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." We should not expect that simply by examining issues in light of the First...

...Jefferson cautioned in a statement calculated to reach out to moderates. "We are all Republicans: We are all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to challenge its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety...

...equal rights, which equal law must protect." It was in this setting that he stated: "every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have...brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans. We are all Federalists."15 This mingling of the two parties appropriately has received the attention...

...political moderation: "every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. . . . We have all called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans - we are all federalists." The demise of the Federalists ushered in the so-called Era of Good Feelings...