The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response.

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

Once water charges are in place they will only go up. This has been the history of all these charges

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

There will always be trouble so there will always be a time for heroes

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing

Light up the darkness

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.

Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.