Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Bring English tyranny to its knees.