Edward Carson Quotes

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Talk to me of treaties! Talk to me of the League of Nations! Every Great Power in Europe was pledged by treaty to preserve Belgium. That was a League of Nations, but it failed.

Edward Carson
We must be prepared…the morning Home Rule passes, ourselves to become responsible for the government of the Protestant Province of Ulster.

Edward Carson
There is no one in the world who would be more pleased to see an absolute unity in Ireland than I would, and it could be purchased tomorrow, at what does not seem to me a very big price. If the South and West of Ireland came forward tomorrow to Ulster and said – "Look here, we have to run our old island, and we have to run her together, and we will give up all this everlasting teaching of hatred of England, and we will shake hands with you, and you and we together, within the Empire, doing our best for ourselves and the United Kingdom, and for all His Majesty's Dominion will join together", I will undertake that we would accept the handshake.

Edward Carson
England's difficulty is not Ulster's opportunity. However we are treated, and however others act, let us act rightly. We do not seek to purchase terms by selling our patriotism.

Edward Carson
I am here tonight under the most tragic circumstances, with the possibilities of grave and difficult operations in Belfast and in Ulster within almost a few days... I am here to tell you solemnly and honestly that we intend to see this matter through. The cost may be great, the sufferings may be terrible.

Edward Carson
We do not want sentence of death with a stay of execution for six years.

Edward Carson
From the day I first entered parliament up to the present, devotion to the union has been the guiding star of my political life.

Edward Carson
My only great qualification for being put at the head of the Navy is that I am very much at sea.

Edward Carson