Albert Camus Quotes
When principles fail, men have only one way to save them and to preserve their faith, which is to die for them.
Saint-Just himself was executed at the age of 27 by the mechanism he had created.
Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French Nobel Laureate in Literature, Comment on French Revolutionary Leader of the Reign of Terror, Louis Saint-Just
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Compare Nathan Hale's last words.
Referring to the British war dead:
Plunckett was the last Roman Catholic martyr to be executed in Britain. He was accused of conspiring against the state by allegedly plotting to bring 20,000 French soldiers into the country, and for levying a tax on his clergy to support 70,000 men for rebellion. The English have always feared ever since Henry VIII severed England from the Roman Catholic Church, that the Papacy was plotting to restore Catholicism to England and sponsor an invasion of Ireland. And indeed that was true in several cases, but nowhere near as many as the English imagined. In this case, paranoia prevailed, and the trial was pretty much a farce, but he was convicted and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered which he was.
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44 in 1957, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, and The Rebel.
