John Morley: “Yet we all know that such devices are the certain result of misgovernment.”

The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.