What care I for the vagabonds if they were twice as powerful? I would rather have one Irish landed proprietor of weight than all their slave-breeders. It is ourselves alone must work out Repeal.
Remarks regarding American money and support for Repeal of the Union after he was told that his anti-slavery views were unpopular in the United States, quoted in Michael MacDonagh, The Life of Daniel O'Connell (1903), p. 308