In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

With regard to the ballot, it is worthy of remark that no meeting has been held in favour of Reform at which the ballot has not been strongly insisted upon.

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.