I can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time

The great appear great to us.

The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars

Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.

The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.

We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.

Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.

One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.

People make great films. I just don't have the eyes to watch them.

Be brave enough to do the loving thing.

The limits to innovation have nothing to do with creativity, and nothing to do with technology. They have everything to do with management capability.

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention.

Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.