It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.