But they are ready, in what they believe to be the cause of justice and liberty, to lay down their lives.

How are you going to overcome that resistance?
Do Honourable Members believe that any Prime Minister could give orders to shoot down men whose only crime is that they refuse to be driven out of our community and be deprived of the privilege of British citizenship?
The thing is impossible.

All your talk about details, the union of hearts and the rest of it, is a sham.

This is a reality.

It is a rock, and on that rock this Bill will inevitably make shipwreck." The Unionist leader then made a searching exposure of the traffic and bargaining between the Cabinet and the Nationalists by which the support of the latter had been bought for a Budget which they hated, the price paid being the Premier's improper advice to the Crown, leading to the mutilation of the Constitution; the acknowledgment in the preamble to the Parliament Act that an immediate reform of the Second Chamber was a "debt of honour"; the omission to redeem that debt, which had provided a new proverb--"Lying as a preamble"; and, finally, the determination to carry Home Rule after deliberately keeping it out of sight during the elections.