A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.

Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!

Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.

There are three things without which there is no country--common language, common judicature, and co-tillage land--for without these a country cannot support itself in peace and social union.

A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.

Educate, that you might be free. We are most anxious to get the quiet, strong minded people who are scattered throughout the country to see the force of this great truth.

They're trying to make fuel cells a reality. They want to bring the hydrogen economy to the United States.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.

Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary.

Simplicity, it seems, has always been wasted on those who simply cannot appreciate it

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.

People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products.

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.

One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.