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

— Edward 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.

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.

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