Quote#Death
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my…
Quote byWilliam Penn · 1644–1718
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Refusing to recant his ideas, after being imprisoned in the Tower of London for expressing his ideas on religious freedoms (1668 or 1669), as quoted in William Penn, America's First Great Champion for Liberty and Peace by Jim Powell..
English (original)
my prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man
— William Penn
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