I am as content to die for Gods eternal truth on the scaffold as i

I am as content to die for Gods eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. – John Mason Brown

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What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. – Thomas Jefferson

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. – E. M. Cioran

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. – Nathaniel Howe

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