To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

I live in a free country. And I have so much more than I need.

Political asylum is granted when you've proven to the government that you have a well founded fear of persecution in your home country. And almost everybody does not get it.