A Quote by Joseph Allen on book burning, imprisonment, genius, time, and ignorant

“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."

Source: Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1788
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