You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.