Joseph Allen Quote 

"The burning of an author’s books, imprisonment for opinion’s sake,
has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time."

by:
Joseph Allen
(1749-1827) Delegate
Source:
Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1788
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