I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.

Every religion is good—every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it.

My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this my native land – in the land of my sires – I am degraded without fault as an alien and an outcast.

Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.

The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood

I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.

I want to make all Europe and America know it - I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the justice we the Irish require - the restoration of our domestic parliament.