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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Edmund Burke
Religious, Atheism, Zealous
Speech, 18 February 1788, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 1, p. 104

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Edmund Burke
Freedom, Atheism, Superstitions
Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.

Edmund Burke
Men, Names, Atheism
Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.46, Delphi Classics

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