If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.