To persecute people for believing too much was even more preposterous than to persecute them for believing too little.

Protestant ascendency was social ascendency, and had no motive so respectable as bigotry behind it.
Burke never conceived the possibility of disestablishing the Irish Church, or even of curtailing its emoluments.

He would have been satisfied with a Parliament from which Catholics were not excluded.
Froude brushed almost contemptuously aside the theories of an illustrious Irishman, the first political writer of his age, and an almost fanatical enemy of revolution.
Genius apart, Burke was peculiarly well qualified to form an opinion.

He knew England as well as Ireland; and imperial as his conceptions were, they never extinguished his love for the land of his birth.

He was himself a member of the Established Church, and a firm supporter of her connection with the State.