John Morley: “You do not work really from the principle of liberalism, but from the cognate, though distinct principles of democracy…”

The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.

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

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.