Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

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

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.

If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet.

I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both.

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

If we only listened with the same passion that we feel about being heard.

You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write.

I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.

The government in Russia does not tell me what to do with my assets.

I'm almost completely deaf anyway. So I'm worried. I'm very worried.

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.