We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

When anything is possible, how do you choose?

Vermeer's skill was in combining few colors, mixing little and using layers of lakes and varnishes to build up the illusion of life

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.

If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

No one wants life to end. It was bad enough when my last tour came to an end.

They finally pushed me out, It's cool though cos I hae a dog.

It's really fun doing scenes with people when there's no written dialogue because you're really listening to each other, you're playing off each other, because that's all you have as a guide.

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.