Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.
Eamon de ValeraThe 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.
Eamon de ValeraOf course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't have done - we were too trained in English democracy to sit down under a dictatorship which is what the American system really is.
Eamon de Valera