The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.

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.

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

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.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Praying is the power of much more grace.

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

Rent is about a community celebrating life, in the face of death and AIDS, at the turn of the century.

Everything is going to hell, but we should smile all the way.

Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim

Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.