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"Hallam's Constitutional History," Edinburgh Review (Sep 1828) - Macaulay, Thomas Babington | WIST Quotations
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…