Fear is choosing the safe course

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

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.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.