The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars

The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour

Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.

We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back the wheels of progress, would destroy the oncoming unity of the Irish labour movement and paralyse all advanced movements while it lasted.

The great appear great to us.