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

If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.

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

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

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

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.

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