Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.

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.

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.

We need a language that brings us together about the deepest things we care about rather than pushing us apart.

To know the true nature of a person unknown, just see closely and correctly the character of known people who truly like him or her.

Man is not above nature, but in nature.

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.

If you will focus on meeting other people’s needs, God will always make sure your needs are supplied. God will take care of your problems for you.

Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all

We are what we think, having become what we thought.

You get used to falling in love with people and having to let them go.

Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.