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Eamon de Valera

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

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

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."

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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."

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"Give light and people will find the way."

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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

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"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."

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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

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"From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality."
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"Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict."
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"If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency."
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"By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme."
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"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."
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"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."
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