I do hope he <nowiki>[</nowiki>Bismarck<nowiki>]</nowiki> will burn down the Faubourg St. Antoine and crush out the Paris mob. Their freaks and madne… - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

In the supreme struggle of social order against anarchy, we cannot deny to the champions of civilised society the moral latitude which is by common consent accorded to armed men fighting for their country against a foreign foe.

All these things we have to do in the midst of other nations who are striving by our side, envying our Empire, occupying our markets, encroaching upon our sphere, and whose efforts, unless we are wide-awake and united and enterprising, will end in diminishing still further our means of supporting our vast industrial population.

[T]here is no middle term between government at Westminster and independent and entirely separate government at Dublin. (Cheers.) If you do not have a government in some form or other issuing from this centre, you must have absolute separation.