"Burke told me that Grattan was a great man for a popular assembly, and now I believe it."
— Henry Grattan

January 1, 1970

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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomPoliticians from IrelandPeople from DublinAnglicansWhig (British political party) politicians
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William Pitt on Grattan's maiden speech in the British House of Commons (13 May 1805), quoted in Memoirs of the Life and Times of The Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Vol. V (1846), p. 262