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• It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine
• The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and… — Annie Besant
• It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. — Albert Camus
• Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. — Emile M. Cioran
• The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either… — Emile M. Cioran
• If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a… — James Madison
• One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being… — Thomas Reed
• India is calling Blood is calling to blood. Get up, we have no time to lose. Take up your arms ! we… — Subhas Chandra Bose
• We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face… — Subhas Chandra Bose
• But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes. — Elbert Hubbard

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