John Morley: “The giant mass of secular English prejudice against Ireland frowned like a mountain chain across the track.”

What I expect is a healthful, slow fermentation in many minds, working towards the final product.

Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.

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.

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