John Morley: “You cannot announce a grand revolution, and then beg the world to wait.”

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.