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.

Education should foster this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire this education is meant to tame. Education should harden this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us.

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.

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

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

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

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.