A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

Man must be associated with his fellows.

The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.

I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.

The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.

The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.

Russia is the only place where men and women can be free.

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.

The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.

By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland.

It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow.

Comrades - We are living in momentous times.

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.

Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.

Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be carried on without constant yet at present necessary dislocation.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.