"To secure order, freedom, and safety, for the minority as well as for the majority of the Irish people, and to do so …"

"I shall offer uncompromising resistance to any measure which may throw obstacles in the way of the teaching of religi…"

"Cromwell failed because he relied solely upon repressive measures. That mistake I shall not imitate. I shall be as re…"

"There are those who talk as if Irishmen were justified in disobeying the law because the law comes to them in a forei…"

"I have never had to go back beyond the year 1885 to prove that the Irish leaders desired to obtain what they call the…"

"It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the t…"

"Those who look forward to a period of continuous and, so to speak, inevitable progress, are bound to assign some more…"

"[T]he energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will…"

"[I]t is Authority rather than Reason to which, in the main, we owe, not religion only, but ethics and politics; that …"

"He did not believe that any such transaction could be quoted from the annals of our political or Parliamentary histor…"