All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill … and from that, freedom grows.

I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime.

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

We must see our present fight right through to the very end.

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.