This monstrous mixture of imbecility, extravagance and political hysteria, better known as the Bill for the future government of Irelandöthis farrago of superlative nonsense, is to be put in motion for this reason and no other: to gratify the ambition of an old man in a hurry.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Pamphlet attacking Gladstone's Home Rule Bill,  Jun.