All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
– Boyle Roche
At present there are such goings-on that everything is at a standstill.
– Boyle Roche
Every pint bottle should contain a quart.
– Boyle Roche
Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
– Boyle Roche
Here perhaps, sir, the murderous Marshallaw-men would break in, cut us to mince-meat and throw our bleeding heads upon that table, to stare us in the face!
– Boyle Roche
How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?
– Boyle Roche
I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic No.
– Boyle Roche
Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.
– 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
The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
– Boyle Roche
The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
– Boyle Roche
The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.
– Boyle Roche
We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
– Boyle Roche
While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.
– Boyle Roche
Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?