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

There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.

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

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 worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

We who hold his (Wolfe Tone) principles believe that any movement which would successfully grapple with the problem of national freedom must draw its inspiration not from the mouldering records of the past, but from the glowing hopes of the living present, the vast possibilities of the mighty future.

Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and inimical to the progress of humanity.