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

Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.

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

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

Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.

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