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Edward Carson Quotes

1854–1935 United Kingdom

Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson PC (9 February 1854 – 22 October 1935) was a leader of the Irish Unionists, a barrister and a judge. As leader of the Irish Unionists he unsuccessfully opposed both Irish home rule and Irish independence, although he did succeed in getting Northern Ireland to remain in the United Kingdom.

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Also known as: Edward Carson, Baron Carson

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This Home Rule conspiracy is the most nefarious conspiracy that has ever been put before the electors of this country.

Nothing Ireland—north, south, east, and west—has suffered so much in its history as the broken pledges of British statesmen.

We do not want sentence of death with a stay of execution for six years.

England's difficulty is not Ulster's opportunity. However we are treated, and however others act, let us act rightly. We do not seek to purchase terms by selling our patriotism.

What a fool I was. I was only a puppet, and so was Ulster, and so was Ireland, in the political game that was to get the Conservative Party into power.

Talk of a League of Nations! Let us at all events begin with a League of British Nations.

Talk to me of treaties! Talk to me of the League of Nations! Every Great Power in Europe was pledged by treaty to preserve Belgium. That was a League of Nations, but it failed.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edward Carson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.