No great cause in church or state, in religion or science, has ever succeeded without sacrifice.
Blood is the price of liberty.
The blood of martyrs is the seed of Christianity. Persecution develops the heroic qualities of human nature, and the passive virtues of patience and endurance under suffering. Protestantism has its martyrs as well as Catholicism. In Germany it achieved a permanent legal existence only after the Thirty Years' War. The Reformed churches in France, Holland, England, and Scotland, passed through the fiery ordeal of persecution.