Boyle Roche Quotes

"The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump."
- Boyle Roche
(Related: Danger)

"Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?"
- Boyle Roche
(Related: Posterity)

"While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other."
- Boyle Roche

"We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech."
- Boyle Roche
(Related: Freedom, Right, Silence, Speech)

"The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens."
- Boyle Roche
(Related: Past)

"The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full."
- Boyle Roche
(Related: Ireland, Misery)

"Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother."
- Boyle Roche
(Related: Brother, England, Ireland, Sisters)

"I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic "No.""
- Boyle Roche

"How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?"
- Boyle Roche

"Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud."
- Boyle Roche
(Related: Sky, Will)

"Every pint bottle should contain a quart."
- Boyle Roche

"All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand."
- Boyle Roche
(Related: Future)