Cyrus the Great:

Let every man worship his own god in his own way, and let no man be compelled to change his faith.

— Cyrus the Great Ancient

Founder of the Achaemenid Empire

A principle of religious tolerance attributed to him, though not a direct quote from the Cylinder.

c. 539 BCE

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