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.

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

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

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

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

I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.