Coercion Bills might be occasionally necessary; no doubt of it; Lord Grey had once a Coercion Bill, and Lord John Russell had voted for it; but then remedial measures ought to be introduced with coercive ones: the evil should be repressed, but also cured.
From a political biography, Disraeli discusses the necessity of Coercion Bills in Ireland and the importance of combining them with remedial legislation.
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But there is nothing in which the power of circumstances is more evident than in politics.
But duty scorns prudence, and criticism has few terrors for a man with a great purpose.
Yet truth, after all, is the sovereign passion of mankind; nor is the writer of these pages prepared to relinquish his conviction that it is possible to combine the accuracy of the present with the impartiality of the future.
He encouraged them by making occasions for their exertions, and would relinquish his own opportunity without a moment’s hesitation, if he thought the abandonment might aid a better man.
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