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It is not the unfrocking of a priest, the unmitring of a bishop, and the removing him from off the presbyterian shoulders, that will make us a happy nation.

From Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by Milton, John

It is not, he cried, ‘the unfrocking of a priest, the unmitring of a bishop, that will make us a happy nation,’ but the practice of virtue, and virtue means freedom to choose. 

From Obiter Dicta Second Series by Birrell, Augustine