Home Rule Quotes

• Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right

  Lord Randolph Churchill

  Fighting, Ulster

  1886 Public letter, 7 May.

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• The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.

  Will Rogers

  Home, Rights, Giving

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• Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.

  James Connolly

  Home, Orange, Sweatshops

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• The man that gets drunk is little else than a fool, And is in the habit, no doubt, of advocating for Home Rule; But the best Home Rule for him, as far as I can understand, Is the abolition of strong drink from the land.

  William Topaz McGonagall

  Strong, Home, Men

  William Topaz McGonagall, “The Demon Drink”

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• Throughout my political career, I've believed in the concept of home rule. Some call it local control. Whichever phrase you use, the concept is the same - the best decisions are those made closest to those who will be impacted by the decisions.

  Linda Lingle

  Home, Careers, Decision

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• It's basically a home-rule issue. I think the governing authority that appoints people as assessors certainly has reasons for doing it. ... And it certainly ought to be the board of assessors' right to say who is best qualified to serve as an appraiser.

  John Scott

  Home, Thinking, Issues

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• Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral David Beatty], while a third directs the Imperial General Staff at home [Sir William Roberton]. The Lord Chancellor is a Scot [Viscount Finlay]; so are the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Foreign Secretary [Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour]. The Prime Minister is a Welshman [David Lloyd George], and the First Lord of the Admiralty is an Irishman [Lord Carson]. Yet no one has ever brought in a bill to give home rule to England!

  John Hay Beith

  Home, Army, Sea

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