John Morley: “Important classes among you, representing ideas that have been fostered and encouraged by British rule, claim equality…”

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.