Alternative versions of the sayings of Boyle Roche
Because my source for the quotations of Sir Boyle Roche was the Internet, I inevitably found that some of the quotations existed in multiple versions.
Where that has happened, I've put my "favourite" version in the Sir Boyle Roche page elsewhere on this Web site, and left the other versions here.
ALTERNATIVE VERSIONS
Mr. Speaker, how could I be in two places at once
unless I were a bird?
The cup of Ireland's miseries has been overflowing for
centuries, and is not yet full.
AND
The cup of our trouble is running over, but, alas, is not yet full.
In the great cause of civil liberty, Mr
Speaker, I should be prepared to sacrifice not only a part of our glorious
constitution, but if necessary the whole of it, in order to preserve the
remainder.
Along
the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unknown hand.
Why should we be concerned about posterity?
What has posterity done for us?
AND
Why should we beggar ourselves to benefit posterity.
What has posterity ever done for us?
Little children who could neither walk nor
talk were running about in the streets cursing their maker.