As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed.

We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!

A country without a language is a country without a soul.

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this.

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

I realized if I didn’t just go, I’d never go. Going was the key. It didn’t matter where I was headed just as long as I was headed somewhere. ~ Ben Davis

Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

Life is not what you wish it to be, rather it’s what you make it.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.

You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control.

Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late.

In life your dreams may not come true, but sooner or later one of your nightmares will.

death should be celebrated...when you put something in the ground you always know where it is