My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.


Refusing to recant his ideas, after being imprisoned in the Tower of London for expressing his ideas on religous freedoms (1668 or 1669), as quoted in William Penn, America's First Great Champion for Liberty and Peace by Jim Powell.


My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.