Thomas Jefferson, March 4, 1801, First Inaugural

"And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions."

Thomas Jefferson, March 4, 1801, First Inaugural Address

Scanned draft at the Library of Congress
Transcript at The Library of Congress