Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

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.

No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

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

We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.

The great appear great to us.