All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
¶ Speech in the Irish Parliament
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Sir Boyle Roche (1743-1807) Irish politician
Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?
¶ Speech, Irish Parliament
In Commons debate over a grant that would add to future debt. Quoted in Jonah Barrington, Personal Sketches of His Own Times, ch. 17 (1869)
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