Quoted in the "Moore to the Point" newsletter this morning:
Government should protect every man in thinking and speaking freely, and see that one does not abuse another. The liberty I contend for is more than toleration. The very idea of toleration is despicable; it supposes that some have a pre-eminence above the rest to grant indulgence, whereas all should be equally free, Jews, Turks, Pagans, and Christians.
— Virginia Baptist evangelist John Leland (1754-1841).
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