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.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

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.

It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

One example is worth a thousand arguments.