How easily they could fit Irish conditions must strike anyone.

I think it might fairly be said that our leaders generally would, if asked to lay down conditions for a rising, have framed some more stringent than these.

It might be said, in truth, of some of them that they seem to wait for more than a moral certainty of success, an absolute certainty, that can never be looked for in war.
IV When a government through its own iniquity ceases to exist, we must, to establish a new government on a true and just basis, go back to the origin of Civil Authority.

No one argues now for the Divine Right of Kings, but in studying the old controversy we get light on the subject of government that is of all time.

To the conception that kings held their power immediately from God, "Suarez boldly opposed the thesis of the initial sovereignty of the people; from whose consent, therefore, all civil authority immediately sprang.