We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.