 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. |
| Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation. |
| Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body. |
| There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed. |
| The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland. |
| The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow. |
| We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration. |
| Intolerance has been the curse of our country. |
| 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. |
| I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet. |
| I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants. |
| For years and years I have done the work I was born for. |
