Quote#Politics & Power
The combination of national action—all Catholic Ireland acting as one…
Quote byDaniel O'Connell · 1775–1847
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Bishop Doyle (29 December 1827), quoted in Correspondence of Daniel O'Connell, The Liberator, Vol. I, ed. W. J. Fitzpatrick (1888), p. 151.
English (original)
The combination of national action—all Catholic Ireland acting as one man—must necessarily have a powerful effect on the minds of the Ministry and of the entire British nation. A people who can be thus brought to act together, and by one impulse, are too powerful to be neglected and too formidable to be long opposed.
— Daniel O'Connell
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