The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood

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.

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.

If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?

Why do you put yourself in unsafe places? Because something in you feels fundamentally devoid of worth.

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

I believe without any doubt that you are the finest generation this Church has ever had.

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

I really wanted to get out of England.

The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren't paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

Dad, girls don't fall down every time they run.