You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal

We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.

I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime.

Love knows all paths, where even gods and cats are blind.

Make TODAY so beautiful that your YESTERDAY is something you will smile about TOMORROW.-RVM

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the new truth.

If you follow the voice inside you, it does give you guidance.

If we are to have peace, we must learn loyalty to a larger group. And before we can learn loyalty, the thing to which we are to be loyal must be created.

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

A picture is not thought out and settled beforehand. While it is being done it changes as one's thoughts change.

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!