Answers Quote by W. C. Sellar

“Gladstone .. spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly…

— W.C. Sellar

William Ewart Gladstone is credited with the credo that a prime minister must be a "good butcher." The metaphor is apt insofar as the…

— James M Strock

“It has been said that after meeting with the great British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, you left feeling he was the smartest person…

— Liz Wiseman

So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Irish question is this: Do the Irish know the answer to everything? ... And the answer to that is that we know fifteen…

— Olivia Robertson

The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

— Katharine Tynan

“ Die Judenfrage ,' it used to be called, even by Jews. 'The Jewish Question.' I find I quite like this interrogative formulation, since…

— Christopher Hitchens

Consider Ireland… You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The 'Irish Question' has dogged English politics for four hundred years and will continue to measure out its irresolution in blood and human lives…

— Kevin Toolis

The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish…

— James Connolly

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

— Woodrow Wilson

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors…

— Winston Churchill