I do not believe that with regard to the Irish question “the resources of civilisation are exhausted”; and I think the plan of your bill is full of complexity, and gives no hope of successful working in Ireland or of harmony between Westminster and Dublin.
Morley critiques a proposed bill regarding Ireland, emphasizing his belief in the ongoing potential for civil solutions.
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Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.
He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.
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