There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.