Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the… — Thomas Jefferson

Is uniformity attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effet of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

On uniformity of opinion in religion.