The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

Comrades - We are living in momentous times!

I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland

The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.

Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

But the rare herb, Forgetfulness, / It hides away from me.

Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire.(...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices.

The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.

Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine.

As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

I see some people with glasses here, I trust people with glasses, don't you? But if you're wearing your glasses like this ... "Get away from 'em!"

There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.

I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as women politicians.

That's what God does. He doesn't try to cover up our flaws; He starts from scratch and makes us new.