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4021. INTOLERANCE, Religious and political.—

Having banished from our land
that religious intolerance under which mankind
so long bled and suffered, we have yet
gained little if we countenance a political intolerance
as despotic, as wicked, and capable
of as bitter and bloody persecutions.—
First Inaugural Address. Washington ed. viii, 2. Ford ed., viii, 2.
(1801)