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“It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.”
—J.B.S. (John Burdon Sanderson)