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“Let us reflect that it [the earth] is inhabited by a thousand millions of people.
That these profess probably a thousand different systems of religion.
That ours is but one of that thousand. That if there be one right, and ours that one,
we should wish to see the 999 wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth …
To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged;
and how can we wish others to indulge it when we refuse it ourselves?”
Thomas Jefferson
from Kramnick, Isaac, Ed. The Portable Enlightenment Reader.
New York: Penguin Books, 1995.
pp. 161-162. | 
