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“I am no Calvinist, but it seems to me neither right nor worthy of a Christian to seek, for the sake of differences between the doctrine of Calvin and the Confession of Augsburg, to have this land swarming with troops and inundated with blood.”
William to the Landgrave of Hesse, as quoted in William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison, p. 34
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