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