If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.

The great appear great to us.

The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars

Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.

The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.

We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.

Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

Hate and love be closer cousin than like and dislike.

Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.

The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later.

Remember: even the smallest drop of God's strength is more than enough to cover our frailties, our shortcomings, and the places where we deem ourselves weak.

I see my pops everyday and that's what I wanted.

The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.

Im not a part of the glamour industry. I would like to focus on my game, and there are minimal chances of me getting into films.

Oftentimes what happens actually is people say to me, 'I didn't know if it was you or not, and then I heard you laugh, and then obviously I could tell it was you.'

As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled.