...the errors of Rome...[are] rank idolatry-a subversion of all civil as well as religious liberty, and the utter disgrace of reason and of human nature. (William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham)

...the errors of Rome...[are] rank idolatry-a subversion of all civil as well as religious liberty, and the utter disgrace of reason and of human nature.

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

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