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

Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

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

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

State ownership and control is not necessarily Socialism - if it were, then the Army, the Navy, the Police, the Judges, the Gaolers, the Informers, and the Hangmen, all would all be Socialist functionaries, as they are State officials - but the ownership by the State of all the land and materials for labour, combined with the co-operative control by the workers of such land and materials, would be Socialism.

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

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.