You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

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.

No man has the right to say to his country

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.

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

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