Fanatics fear liberty more than they fear persecution.

The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries can't celebrate Christmas-or any aspect of their faith-openly for fear of persecution and death. And yet we,…

— Erwin W. Lutzer

“I was brought up to hate and fear liberty. I came to love it. That is the secret of my whole career.”

— William Gladstone

I don't know how you feel, my brethren and sisters, but I'd rather be dead than to lose my liberty. I have no fear…

— Ezra Taft Benson

And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear…

— Alexander Hamilton

To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will…

— John Paul Stevens

“More doctors are being forced to close their practices or not to take insurance due to fear of persecution,” says Caryn Jaffe of Columbia,…

— Pamela Weintraub

Unless they can immediately demonstrate a credible fear of persecution, why shouldn't these people be returned at once to the country from which they…

— Ed Koch

“Jesus came to give his righteousness not to condemn the unrighteous.”

— Mac Canoza

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Persecution matures young rebels.

— Han Suyin

“People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But…

— J. Matthew Nespoli

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

— J. C. Ryle

The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of…

— Edward Gibbon

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage