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To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. 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.
-Thomas B. Macaulay
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Thomas B. Macaulay
To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. 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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