"I sit down re-asserting my sentiments, which are, that the removal of all disabilities is necessary to make the Catholic a freeman, and the Protestant a people."
— Henry Grattan

January 1, 1970

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Speech in the Irish House of Commons (20 February 1792), quoted in The Speeches of The Right Honourable Henry Grattan, in the Irish, and in the Imperial Parliament, Vol. II (1822), p. 376