We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.
All the great things are simple.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.
Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.