Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the refor…

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Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, p.605
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