When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

I 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.

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

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

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.

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.