Soldiers are martyrs to ambition. [ Proverb ]
No religion but can boast of its martyrs. [ Proverb ]
No faith has triumphed without its martyrs. [ E. de Girardin ]
Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs. [ Helvetius ]
Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts. [ Lamartine ]
Authors are martyrs, witnesses to the truth, or else nothing. [ Carlyle ]
The commandments have made as many good martyrs as the creed. [ Proverb ]
In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the church, counted its martyrs by thousands. [ James A. Garfield ]
Paradise is open to all kind hearts. God welcomes whoever has dried tears, either under the crown of the martyrs, or under wreaths of flowers. [ Beranger ]
It has become a settled principle that nothing which is good and true can be destroyed by persecution, but that the effect ultimately is to establish more firmly, and to spread more widely, that which it was designed to overthrow. It has long since passed into a proverb that the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
[ Albert Barnes ]
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm. [ Helps ]