Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this.

Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire; this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us.

We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.

A country without a language is a country without a soul.

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.