If you are to give him the whole of Great Britain and Ireland for an estate, he would ask the Isle of Man for a potato garden

It used to be Britain and Ireland but more and more it is Australia and New Zealand. I think a lot of it has to do with the exchange rate, the pound is high and even the Euro is high, the Australian dollar is much better.

On the evidence I have seen and heard, I believe that the security situation in Northern Ireland and the continuing danger of intimidation of those called for jury service, justifies the continued scheduling of offences.

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

Four or five frigates will do the business without any military force.

No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.