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I have realised from the first that if it could not be proved that social reform (not Socialism) can be financed on a Free Trade line, a return to Protection is a moral certainty.

— H. H. Asquith

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Wonderful news to-day, and it is only a question of time when we shall sweep this country.

The severance of Ulster from the rest of Ireland is a geographical, and, therefore, a political impossibility. ... The Union is safe so long as Ulster is loyal.

[T]he bond which united them, if their critics were to be believed, might be a tranquil consciousness of effortless superiority.

[A] return to more thrifty and economical administration [is] the first and paramount duty of the Government.

No, I will not. We shall wait and see.

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