 | Plantagenet Somerset Fry, Peter Plantagenet Somerset Fry, Fiona Somerset Fry - 1991 - 388 pages
...convention concluded with the revolutionary words which, again, have the ring of Grattan about them: 'We know our duty to our sovereign, and are loyal. We know our duty to ourselves, and are resolved to be free.' A week later, Grattan moved a Declaration of Independence... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1822 - 778 pages
...Their address was short and spirited and spoke in language not to be mistaken. It concluded thus — " We know our duty to our sovereign and are loyal — we know our duty to ourselves and are resolved to be free. We seek for our rights and no more than our rights... | |
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We thank you for your noble and spirited, though hitherto ineffectual efforts in defence of the great constitutional and commercial rights of your country. Go on! The almost unanimous voice of the people is with you, and in a free country the voice of... 
