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.

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

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

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

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

The police are the public and the public are the police.