Persecution is a very easy form of virtue. - John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

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About John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge PC (3 December 1820 – 14 June 1894) was a British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. He held the posts, in turn, of Solicitor General for England and Wales, Attorney General for England and Wales, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Lord Chief Justice of England.

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Birth Name: John Duke Coleridge
Alternative Names: J. D. Coleridge Sir J. D. Coleridge Sir John Duke Coleridge Baron Coleridge

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I for one would never be a party, unless the law were clear, to saying to any man who put forward his views on those most sacred things, that he should be branded as apparently criminal because he differed from the majority of mankind in his religious views or convictions on the subject of religion. If that were so, we should get into ages and times which, thank God, we do not live in, when people were put to death for opinions and beliefs which now almost all of us believe to be true.

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