John Morley: “I am afraid that local opinion has exercised, habitually and traditionally, too much influence in Ireland, and has…”

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.