Benjamin Disraeli: “But there is nothing in which the power of circumstances is more evident than in politics.”

In less than a century there had been seventeen coercive acts for Ireland, a circumstance which might make some ponder whether such legislation were as efficacious as it was violent.

There cannot be two moralities; and to hold that the Second Person of the Holy Trinity could teach a different morality from that which had been already revealed by the First Person of the Holy Trinity, is a dogma so full of terror that it…

He wished to see our society founded on a broad basis of civil and religious liberty.

The immolators were preordained like the victim, and the holy race supplied both.