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| Martyr Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mankind will reject and kill their prophets, but men love their martyrs and honour those whom they have done to death. | Dostoyevsky | Fyodor |
| 2 | It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr. | Bonaparte | Napoleon |
| 3 | And one may say boldly that no man has a right perception of any truth who has not been reacted on by it so as to be ready to be its martyr. | Emerson | Ralph Waldo |
| 4 | Let others wear the martyr's crown; I am not worthy of this honor. | Erasmus | Desiderus |
| 5 | The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. | Howe | Nathaniel |
| 6 | The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins. | Kierkegaard | Soren |
| 7 | It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. | Mann | Horace |
| 8 | Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones lie scatter'd on the Alpine Mountains cold. | Milton | John |
| 9 | It has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a Mormon. I am bold enough to declare before Heaven that I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist or a good man of any other denomination; for the same principle which would trample upon the rights of the Latter-day Saints would trample upon the rights of the Roman Catholics, or of any other denomination. | Smith | Joseph |
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