Lord Randolph Churchill
'The orange card was the one to play'
Lord Randolph Churchill
'if we cannot hold Ireland why obviously we cannot hold India'
Gladstone
'we have for a number of years been struggling to pass good laws for Ireland'
Reverand Dr Irwin on the Catholic Church
'The claim of that church has always been to control the individual, the home, the school, the nation.'
Edward Carson
'The union is my guiding star'
Carson
'we must be prepared... the morning Home Rule passes, to ourselves become responsible for the government of the Protestant province of Ulster'
Carson's belief on Ulster
'if Ulster succeeds Home Rule is dead'
Bonar Law at Blenheim
'I can imagine no length of resistance to which Ulster can go in which I should not be prepared to support them.'
James Craig, wiritng in the Morning Post
'armed resistance of the most determined character will be resorted to sooner than submit to the dominance of the Church of Rome'
Bonar Law in The Times
'I repeat here that there are things stronger than parliamentary majorities'
Carson showing anxiety about the determination of Ulster resistance in July 1911
'What I am anxious about is that the people over there really mean to resist.
Bonar Law to Austen Chamberlain
He only cared anbout two issues: tariff reform and Ulster
Bonar Law to the crowd at Balmoral
Ulster was the key to the Empire
The Ulster Solemn League and Covenant
'[Ulster Unionists would use] all means which may be found necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a home rule parliament in Ireland'
Churchill in Dundee, 9 October
Ulster's 'claim for special consideration... cannot be ignored by a Government depending on the existing House'.
Redmond responding to Churchill in Limerick on 12 October
'The Two Nation theory an abomination and a blaspehmy'
Asquith to Redmond
'We are not going to be frightened or deflected by menaces of civil war. We are not going to make any surrender of principle. We mean to see the thing through.'
Carson responding to Asquith's announcement of temporary exclusion in March 1914
'We do not want a sentence of death with a stay of execution for six years'
Redmond believed Carson was bluffing
'Irish Nationalists can never be consenting parties to the mutilation of the Irish nation'