I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.

I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime.

You can't go around feeling too much.

Again and again in his career, Hamilton committed the same political error: he never knew when to stop, and the resulting excesses led him into irremediable indiscretions.

A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.

Israel has an absolute right to exist - not only to exist - but to exist in a way that they're not under threat of terrorism.

All works of art should begin... at the end.

Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

If people had no fear, you'd hardly need to have to teach them. It's the fear that screws everything up.

But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.

I live in a neighborhood that's very family-oriented, so I feel like everyone else is sleeping and I'm sitting up, making music. It's just me. It's a nice time to be creative.