Charles Stewart Parnell

I would not have taken off my coat and gone to work had I not known that we were laying the foundations by this movement for the recovery of our legislative independence.

While we leave those things to time, circumstances and the future, we must each one of us resolve in our own hearts that we shall at all times do everything which within us lies to obtain Ireland the fullest measure of her rights.

No man has the right to say to his country "Thus far shalt thou go and no further".

No man has the right to fix the boundary to the march of a nation.

Without the help of the people our exertions would be as nothing.

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

The government, with its bayonets, will learn in a single Winter how powerless are armed forces against the will of a united determined, and self-reliant nation.

Bring English tyranny to its knees.

Stand together in face of the brutal, cowardly enemies of your race!

Fellow citizens:The hour to try your souls and to redeem your pledges has arrived.

You can never have civil liberty so long as strangers and Englishmen make your laws and so long as the occupiers of the soil own not an inch of it.

The law gave those landlords extensive power at the present time, and unless they went in for a revolution he confessed he did not see how they were going to bring about a radical reform of the system of land tenure in this country.

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England, as he had heard an ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer call it some time ago. Ireland was not a geographical fragment, but a nation.