People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.

So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him,-pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

The highest result of education is tolerance.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

To go through life without ever being converted to anything seems a mark of insensitiveness. The ideal world would be a world in which everybody was capable of conversion and in which at the same time the converts would admit the possibility that they might be mistaken.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.