It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

Grace is the seed of all goodness.

It is a fool's plan to teach a man to be a cur in peace, and think that he will be a lion in war.

Since I started playing, really, since I was like three. I imagined myself famous but the vision was blurry, I guess. What you see on TV isn't a realistic picture.

The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.

The balance of probabilities, therefore, comes out strongly against the existence of a god.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

Survival is your strength not your shame.

I haven't done a lot in London. I think comedy over there is how it was over here years ago. There's tons of it, and they're better paid.

As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.