“Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.”

— Charles James Fox

Speech in the House of Commons (19 April 1791), quoted in J. Wright (ed.), The Speeches of the Rt. Hon. C. J. Fox in the House of Commons. Volume IV (1815), p. 192.
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