If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

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.

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

We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

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.

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.

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.