Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

I am very fond of truth but not at all of martyrdom.

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr but let no one lust for martyrdom.

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

You should read history and look at ostracism persecution martyrdom and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men you know.