United Irishmen

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“When, in some obscure country town, the farmers come together to a special town meeting, to express their opinion on some subject which is vexing to the land, that, I think, is the true Congress, and the most respectable one that is ever assembled in the United States.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“My one claim to originality among Irishmen is that I have never made a speech.”
—George Moore (1852–1933)