Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “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.” ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) Irish playwright and Whig statesmanSource: Speech in the House of Commons, 6 February 1810