Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

No man has the right to say to his country

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.