It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.

We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning [to] consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul?

By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.