It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

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The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

This regard for the liberties of Europe, this care at one time for the protestant interest, this excessive love for the balance of power, is neither more nor less than a gigantic system of outdoor relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter it is now under 40s. the quarter.

A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.

To have two Legislative Assemblies in the United Kingdom would, in my opinion, be an intolerable mischief and I think no sensible man can wish for two within the limits of the present United Kingdom who does not wish the United Kingdom to become two or more nations, entirely separate from each other.

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

England is the Mother of Parliaments

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.