We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.
Eamon de ValeraI shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
Eamon de ValeraWe 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.
Eamon de Valera