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

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

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

How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.

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

No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.

Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English tongue, as the medium of all modern communication, is so great that I can witness without a sigh the gradual decline of the Irish language.