Edmund Burke: “At bottom, Ireland has no other choice,--I mean, no other rational choice.”

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.

Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.