The Limitations of Toleration: A Discussion Between Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Hon. Frederic R. Coudert, Ex-Gov. Stewart L. Woodford; Before the ... Metropolitan Opera House (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Limitations of Toleration: A Discussion Between Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Hon. Frederic R. Coudert, Ex-Gov. Stewart L. Woodford; Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York, at the Metropolitan Opera House

Second. No human being is accountable to any being - human or divine - for his thoughts.

Third. Human beings have a certain interest in the thoughts of each other, and one who undertakes to tell his thoughts' should be honest.

Fourth. 'all have an equal right to express their thoughts upon all subjects.

Fifth. For one man to say to another, I tolerate you, is an assumption of authority not a disclaimer, but a waiver, of the right to persecute.

Sixth. Each man has the same right to express to the whole world his ideas, that the rest of the world have to express their thoughts to him.

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