Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?

I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.

However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.

Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.