How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.

I want to make all Europe and America know it - I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the justice we the Irish require - the restoration of our domestic parliament.

Every religion is good—every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it.

The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.

The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood

Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.

No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.

The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

The passing time is painful. I have lost the art of moving simply, naturally, within it. I am swept back against its flow. Angry, vindictive, it pierces me all the time, all the time with its spikes.

Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it.

All the characters in this book are fictional, but they are as real to me as the members of my own family. I had to tell their story because they could not.

I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a LOT of scars.

I'd be a billionaire if I could get a dollar for all the bullsh*t that I hear a day.

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

Your marriage goes to a whole new level. You not only fall in love with your wife in a new way, but you're forced to pull together. You have to become a united front.

According to a new poll, 50 percent of Americans think the country is divided. The other 50 percent think it isn't.

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