A brief observation on an end to 'happy hours'
"It would be better that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober". Source
Or as the phrase is better known, 'Better England free than sober'. Anyway, the words are those of an Irish Anglican divine, William Magee, and were uttered in response to Gladstone's rather odious 1872 Licensing Act.
Or as the phrase is better known, 'Better England free than sober'. Anyway, the words are those of an Irish Anglican divine, William Magee, and were uttered in response to Gladstone's rather odious 1872 Licensing Act.