We Nationalists have grasped this better and proclaimed it more steadily than any Unionist.

There is as much truth in saying that life begins where politics end, as in saying that love begins where love-making ends.
Constitutional freedom is not the fifth act of the social drama in modern times, it is rather the prologue, or, better still, the theatre in which other ideas that move men find an arena for their conflict.
Ireland, a little exhausted by her intense efforts of the last thirty years, does assuredly need a rest-cure from agitation.

But this healing peace is itself a gift of autonomy.

A tooth-ache concentrates the whole mind on one particular emotion, which is a bad thing, and breeds profanity, which is worse.

But it is idle to tell a man with a tooth-ache that what he needs in his life is less cursing and more business.