Daniel O'Connell Quotes

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.

I want to make all Europe and America know it - I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the justice we the Irish require - the restoration of our domestic parliament.

Every religion is good—every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it.

The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.

The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood

How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.

Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.

No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.

The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Whatever little we have gained we have gained by agitation while we have uniformly lost by moderation.