"James the Second, who was a very good King, but unhappily believed that it was necessary for the salvation of his subjects that they should be Roman Catholicks."

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Samuel Johnson's remarks to James Boswell (6 April 1775), quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., Vol. I [1791] (1933), p. 578