By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

My smile is my servant, he should come at my command.

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.

the smallest part is worthy of the whole.

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

It was the television that turned me to film. My parents did take me to Pete's Dragon.

I'm not bowled over by how different all the world's religions are - I'm bowled over by how similar they are.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

It's a very complicated landscape and I don't think there's one easy answer about it [Edard Snowden movie].