John Morley: “The Irish peasant, after suffering centuries of oppression and tyrannic wrong, at last got the charter of his…”

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.

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

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.