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