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.

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

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

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

It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

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.