Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.

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

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

No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus that sits on our energies, stops the pulsation of the nation's heart and leaves to Ireland not gay vitality but horrid the convulsions of a troubled dream.

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

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

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.