We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

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.

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

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

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes intense desire.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.

Anything is always a possibility. Wouldn't talk about what we would have done or what we would do. Everything is a possibility.

Only man has law. Law must be built, do you understand me? You must build the law.

If you are not learning, no one will ever let you down.

There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.

I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that.

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.