Quote#Happiness
I have signed the Messages to the two Houses of Parliament respecting…
Quote byGeorge III of Great Britain · 1738–1820
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter on the Constitutional Act 1791 (24 February 1791), quoted in The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume I: December 1783 to January 1793, ed. Arthur Aspinall (1962), p. 519.
English (original)
I have signed the Messages to the two Houses of Parliament respecting the Province of Quebec, and shall be happy if the alterations proposed prove agreable to the different classes of subjects in that Province, but must ever think those who have the strongest claim on the attention of this country are the old inhabitants, whose rights and usages ought by no means to be disturbed.
— George III of Great Britain
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