"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens."

"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"

"Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power."

"Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question."

"The greatest of all evils is a weak government."