There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed.

We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!

A country without a language is a country without a soul.

As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.

I don't believe in Elvis.

My first priority is my family. I am human. But my whole family knows what my priority is. Family is always first. But my work is under nothing else, except God.

Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

If you're not doing things right yourself, it's unrealistic to think you can hold other people to a standard.