I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.

Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.