Quote#Politics & Power
The law gave those landlords extensive power at the present time, and…
Quote byCharles Stewart Parnell · 1846–1891
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech in Tralee (15 November 1878), quoted in Michael Davitt, The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland; Or, The Story of the Land League Revolution (1904), p. 137.
English (original)
The law gave those landlords extensive power at the present time, and unless they went in for a revolution he confessed he did not see how they were going to bring about a radical reform of the system of land tenure in this country.
— Charles Stewart Parnell
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