Quote#Freedom
Galled the country with its tyranny, insulted her by its manners,…
Quote byHenry Grattan · 1746–1820
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Reply to an address of the Roman Catholics of Dublin (1795), quoted in Memoirs of the Life and Times of The Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Vol. IV (1849), p. 219.
English (original)
galled the country with its tyranny, insulted her by its manners, exhausted her by its rapacity, and slandered her by its malice.
— Henry Grattan
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