Quote#Freedom
What care I for the vagabonds if they were twice as powerful? I would…
Quote byDaniel O'Connell · 1775–1847
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Remarks regarding American money and support for Repeal of the Union after he was told that his anti-slavery views were unpopular in the United States, quoted in Michael MacDonagh, The Life of Daniel O'Connell (1903), p. 308.
English (original)
What care I for the vagabonds if they were twice as powerful? I would rather have one Irish landed proprietor of weight than all their slave-breeders. It is ourselves alone must work out Repeal.
— Daniel O'Connell
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