Leslie Stephen on Courage

This page displays 1 quotation attributed to Leslie Stephen and filed under "courage" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.

Attributed to Leslie Stephen, entry #100808: "The doctrine of toleration requires a positive as well as a negative statement. It is not only wrong to burn a man on account of his creed, but it is right to encourage the open a…"