Boyle Roche

“I answer boldly in the affirmative—No!”

“A man could not be in two places at once, unless he were a bird.”

“Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all possible misfortunes is generally followed by a much greater.”

“The cup of our misfortunes was not yet full, but was overflowing with a drop or two.”

“Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?”

“All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.”

“The country is overrun with absentee landlords.”

“Mr. Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I'll nip him in the bud.”

“Sir, I would give up half, nay the whole of the constitution, to preserve the remainder!”

“The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.”

“His sleep was so profound that it could not be preserved but by waking him.”

“The best way to avoid a danger is to meet it plump.”

“Here, perhaps, sir, the murderous marshal-law men would break in, cut us to mince-meat, and throw our bleeding heads on that table, to stare us in the face.”

“If we do not now make a stand, we are lost; we are on the brink of a precipice; and if we do not take care, we shall be landed in the bottomless pit.”

“What, Mr. Speaker, and so we are to beggar ourselves for fear of being robbed?”