Quote#Desire
What I now say I wish to reach England, and I ask, What is to be done…
Quote byDaniel O'Connell · 1775–1847
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech after his by-election victory delivered to the Catholic Association in the Corn Exchange, Dublin (10 July 1828), quoted in Michael MacDonagh, The Life of Daniel O'Connell (1903), p. 165.
English (original)
What I now say I wish to reach England, and I ask, What is to be done with Ireland? What is to be done with the Catholics? One of two things. They must either crush us or conciliate us. There is no going on as we are; there is nothing so dangerous as going on as we are.
— Daniel O'Connell
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