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The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
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Boyle Roche
politician
1736 – 1807
Sir Boyle Roche, 1st Baronet was an Irish politician. After a distinguished career in North America with the British Army, Roche became a member of the Irish House of Commons in 1775, generally acting in support of the viceregal government. He is better remembered for the language of his speeches than for his politics – they were riddled with mixed metaphors, malapropisms and other unfortunate turns of phrase. Roche may have been Richard Brinsley Sheridan's model for Mrs Malaprop.
While arguing for a bill, Roche once said, "It would surely be better, Mr. Speaker, to give up not only a part, but, if necessary, even the whole, of our constitution, to preserve the remainder!"
All Quotes by Boyle Roche
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I hope, my lord, if you ever come within a mile of my house that you will stay there all night.
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[...I] answer boldly in the affirmative with an emphatic No!
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We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.
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All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
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...it is impossible I could have been in two places at once, unless I were a bird.
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There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.
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Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?
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It would surely be better … to give up not only a part, but, if necessary, even the whole, of our constitution, to preserve the remainder!
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All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
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[...they] would cut us to mincemeat, and throw our bleeding heads on that table to stare us in the face.
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