To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.