Richard Brinsley Sheridan Giving Quotations

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.

Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.