We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

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

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

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

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

An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.