If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.

My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.

I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.