William Gladstone: “If this be a question of time at all, then it is most important to consider what is the right time.”

It is a sign that the law does not do its work.

I do not expect, any more than I desire, these foreign complications, but still it is not wise wholly to shut them out.

In fact, these men have been punished for doing in Ireland that which would be perfectly lawful in England, and which, I believe, is perfectly lawful even in Ireland, under any fair interpretation of the act.

But the day may come when your condition may not be so happy.