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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

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

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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