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The result is, you cannot make the people Protestants, and they cannot shake off a Protestant government.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The result is, you cannot make the people Protestants, and they cannot shake off a Protestant government.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke points out the impossibility of changing the religious identity of the people under a Protestant government.
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