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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1596
AUTHOR: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
QUOTATION: But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans—we are federalists.
ATTRIBUTION: President THOMAS JEFFERSON, inaugural address, March 4, 1801.—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 3, p. 319 (1904).
SUBJECTS: Republic