“We have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy.”

— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

Prior's Life of Burke (1790), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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British politician 1708–1778

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