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Edmund Burke: We are Protestants, not from indifference, but from zeal.

On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
We are Protestants, not from indifference, but from zeal.
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Edmund Burke

Editor's note · Context

Burke declares that the English embrace Protestantism not out of apathy, but from fervent conviction.

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