You've no great measure that you wish to pass ?" "But they've a great measure that they wish to pass." "They know better than that.

They don't want to kill their golden goose." "The people, who are infinitely ignorant of all political work, do want it.

There are counties in which, if you were to poll the people, Home Rule would carry nearly every voter,--except the members themselves." "You wouldn't give it them ?" "Certainly not;--any more than I would allow a son to ruin himself because he asked me.

But I would endeavour to teach them that they can get nothing by Home Rule,--that their taxes would be heavier, their property less secure, their lives less safe, their general position more debased, and their chances of national success more remote than ever." "You can never teach them, except by the slow lesson of habit.

The Heptarchy didn't mould itself into a nation in a day." "Men were governed then, and could be and were moulded.