“The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted…”
“The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted…”

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“The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized…”

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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