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

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

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.

If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs

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

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

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