National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

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!

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.