I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of any remedy but that which I wish I could hope for - a great reduction in the amount of crime.

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.

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.

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

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.