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It is not in my power to prevent the grand patron of the Reformed Church, if he chooses it, from annulling the Calvinistic sabbath, and establishing the décadi of atheism in all his states.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke warns about the potential for a ruler to undermine religious traditions.
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