“When we in the Unionist Party defend ourselves against the political attacks of the Nationalist Party, we are perforce defending ourselves against the Roman Catholic hierarchy… Until the hierarchy renounces its influence in politics, the Orange Order cannot renounce its influence in the Unionist Party.”
—Brian Faulkner, as Ulster Unionist MP, at Orange demonstration in Comber, Co. Down, 12/7/1960. Boyd, Andrew, Brian Faulkner and The Crisis in Ulster Unionism, Anvil, 1972, pp. 35–36.
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