Irish Peers

Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or peers:

    “The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “He could not have been tried by a jury of his peers, because his peers did not exist.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)