Quote by Thomas Jefferson
What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of lib

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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. – Thomas Jefferson

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Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. – Thomas Jefferson

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

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. – Horace Mann

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

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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It consisted of a half-sheet of letter-paper, folded in the fashion of those days when as yet the envelope was undiscovered… – J.C. Atkinson, “Witch Stories and Witch Antidotes,” Forty Years in a Moorland Pa

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