Assuming Quote by Thomas Paine

Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of…

— James Madison

“Toleration means incomplete religious liberty.”

— John Bagnell Bury

“Toleration means being prepared to accept opinions that you intensely dislike. Likewise democracy means consenting to be governed by people whom you intensely dislike.…

— Roger Scruton

Our contention is not for mere toleration, but for absolute liberty. There is a wide difference between toleration and liberty. Toleration implies that somebody…

— George W Truett

Toleration is the best religion.

— Victor Hugo

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

— Wallace Stevens

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another…

— George Washington

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.

— Frederick Buechner

There can be no tolerance in a law-system for another religion. Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law-system as a prelude…

— R.J. Rushdoony

“The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as…

— Edward Gibbon

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

— Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau