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

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

Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.

However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal - an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over all the oceans.

The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

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

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