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“He (Mr Pitt) confines ‘the purposes of Irish representation’ (in the English Parliament) to two objects – first, watching and waiting, which requires one representative; secondly, protection against Jacobinism, which requires no representative whatever. He then proceeds to ask himself a question extremely natural after such reasoning – ‘What security has Ireland? He answers with great candour, Honour- English Honour. Now when the liberty and security of one country depends on the honour of another, the latter may have much honour, but the former can have no liberty. To depend on the honour of another country is to depend on her will; and to depend on the will of another country is the definition of slavery.” –26 May 1800
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