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- Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
- The highest result of education is tolerance.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), 'Optimism,' 1903
- To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Hyperion, 1839
- I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- Ralph W. Sockman
- Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), in John Dos Passos, "Mr Wilson's War"
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