Bonar Law: Party

Bonar Law was Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Explore interesting quotes on party.

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“Whatever steps you may feel compelled to take, whether they are constitutional, or whether in the long run they are unconstitutional, you have the whole Unionist Party, under my leadership, behind you.”

Message sent to Belfast (12 July, 1913).

“We who represent the Unionist Party in England and Scotland have supported, and we mean to support to the end, the loyal minority [in Ireland]. We support them not because we are intolerant, but because their claims are just.”

Speech in the Albert Hall (26 January, 1912).

“I think perhaps it would be useful if I repeat again to you the words which I used in the first speech when I became leader of our party [in 1911]…"No government of which I am a member will ever be a government of reaction…" That was my view then:… it is my view today, and if I thought the Unionist party was, or would ever become, a party of that kind, I would not be a member of it.”

At the Public Baths, Old Kent Road (7 November, 1922).

“As I crossed a few hours ago from Scotland I said to myself,—"The majority there are Radicals. They are going to vote next week for the Home Rule Bill. What would they say to a proposal which was to subject them to the same kind of Government or the same kind of men to which, for the sake of party interests, they are willing to sacrifice you?" They would never accept it. I know Scotland well, and I believe that, rather than submit to such a fate, the Scottish people would face a second Bannockburn or a second Flodden.”

'Mr. Bonar Law In Ulster.', The Times (9 April, 1912), p. 7.