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6225. OPINION, Freedom of.—[further continued] .

The right of opinion shall
suffer no invasion from me. Those [officeholders] who have acted well have nothing
to fear, however they may have differed
from me in opinion: those who have done ill,
however, have nothing to hope; nor shall I
fail to do justice lest it should be ascribed
to that difference of opinion.—
To Elbridge Gerry. Washington ed. iv, 391. Ford ed., viii, 42.
(W. March. 1801)