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

Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and economic exploitation of Ireland to judgment day, if she is not halted and ejected.

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

There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.

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

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.

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