I would rather have my tongue cut out than retract a single syllable.
Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Diet of Worms (attributed, exact wording varies in accounts)
1521
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"Let us therefore beware of the Jews, and their synagogues, and let us burn their synagogues, and let us destroy their houses, and let us take away their prayer-books and Talmuds, and let us forbid the…"
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Shocking"The more you read the Bible, the more you will understand it."
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Philosophical