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.

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

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.