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

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

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

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

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.

God is most important in everything

Protect your destiny by vowing to refrain yourself from thinking or speaking whatever it is you aren't willing to embrace it's reality from the universes

I wanted to have money I wanted to be special I wanted people to like me I wanted to be famous.

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.

If you can keep learning, you can still do your thing, and keep singing or whatever, and still do innovative things.

I will fight you endlessly if I think you're wrong but I will never judge you.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.