There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate s

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. – Patrick Henry Pearse

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

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

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. – Arthur Schnitzler

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

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