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

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.

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.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house.

Evil things you do to others show your personality and thus identify you, and the good ones come back to you too… - Cocoy McCoy -

The subject of a novel is not the plot. Who remembers what happened to Lucien de Rebempre in the end?

Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.

I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!

I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity.

You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.

The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.

Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.