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

The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.

I can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time

If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.

All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying bodies and portions of bodies once warm living and tender parts of Irish men and youths - all these horrors in Flanders or the Gallipoli Peninsula, are all items in the price Ireland pays for being part of the British Empire.

Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!