"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 all Federalists."
- Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 1801
When Jefferson said that "We are all republicans, we are all Federalists," in his First Inaugural Address to the Congress he meant that
A) all we’re Americans, United in wanting the best for the country
B) Congress would quickly act to ban political parties from fielding candidates in national elections
C) he expected that the political divisions which had split the country in his predecessors administrations would continue
D) the two political parties had the same policies