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

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.

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.

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.

The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it.

Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.

All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly.

We have a drinking game in Australia, it's called drinking.

With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business.

Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.