"The constitution of the country requires that she should submit to dictation.

Can it come safely from any other quarter than that of a majority of the House of Commons ?" "I think not." "We are all agreed about that.

Not a single man in either House would dare to deny it.

And if it be so, what man in his senses can think of running counter to the party which he believes to be right in its general views?
A man so burthened with scruples as to be unable to act in this way should keep himself aloof from public life.

Such a one cannot serve the country in Parliament, though he may possibly do so with pen and ink in his closet." "I wonder then that you should have asked me to come forward again after what I did about the Irish land question," said Phineas.
"A first fault may be forgiven when the sinner has in other respects been useful.