Give me the liberty of the Press, and I will give the Minister a venal House of Peers, I will give him a corrupt and servile House of Commons…armed with the liberty of the Press, I will go forth to meet him undismayed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
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Birth: | 30th October, 1751 |
Death: | 7th July, 1816 |
Nationality: | Irish |
Profession: | Politician, Statesman |
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Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester.
Such was the esteem he was held in by his contemporaries when he died that he was buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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