An idea from On Liberty

Some say truth always wins in the end, so persecution does it no harm. History disagrees. Reform movements before Luther, from Savonarola to the Hussites, were crushed, and Protestantism was stamped out wherever persecution kept up. Truth’s real advantage is only that someone may find it again later.

From On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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