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It is better that many be tolerated than all be compelled
Drawn from what John Milton said
What John Milton actually said
- John Milton English poet and polemicist (1608 to 1674)
Yet if all cannot be of one mind—as who looks they should be?—this doubtless is more wholesome, more prudent, and more Christian, that many be tolerated, rather than all compelled.
Where this was said
↗Areopagitica (1644)gutenberg.org
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