...the great Unionist party shall still control, whether in power or whether in opposition, the destinies of this great Empire. - Arthur Balfour

The Irish had owed their success to crime. Winston practically admitted it. They had defied British rule,—and British rulers had given in to them. How could such a state of things be said to fit in with the scheme of the Empire?

There are those who talk as if Irishmen were justified in disobeying the law because the law comes to them in a foreign garb. I see no reason why any local colour should be given to the Ten Commandments.

Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.