"We have a monarchy, the best form of government for rational and durable liberty."
— Henry Grattan

January 1, 1970

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Speech in the Irish House of Commons (10 January 1793), quoted in The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons of Ireland, The Fourth Session of the Fifth Parliament in the Reign of his Present Majesty; which met at Dublin on the 10th of January, and ended the 16th of August, 1793. Vol. XIII (1793), p. 13