We give our confidence to the people of England because they have always been loyal to the Queen, have always loved the law, and have always been passionately attached to the Empire. (Cheers.) Has that characterised the Irish dominant faction? ... Why they have always sought support from time to time from whatever nation happened to be in hostility to England-first the Spaniards, then the French, and now the Americans. (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury)

We give our confidence to the people of England because they have always been loyal to the Queen, have always loved the law, and have always been passionately attached to the Empire. (Cheers.) Has that characterised the Irish dominant faction? ... Why they have always sought support from time to time from whatever nation happened to be in hostility to England-first the Spaniards, then the French, and now the Americans.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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