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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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

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood — never. – Albert Camus

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

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads havent been cut off. – E. M. Cioran

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