We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
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Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
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