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"We must see our present fight right through to the very end."
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"The number one skill in life is not giving up."

"Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed."

"The third level of prayer, which is much more serious is knocking."

"No matter how hard things get, you owe it to yourself to always find a way to persist and persevere until you are greatly rewarded for all your pain and sufferings."

"He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man."

"The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery."

"Everything yields to diligence."

"I think people give up, because it's the easy option, but my goodness; why would giving up be easy? Your living your life chasing anything to fill the void of what came about when you let go of everything that mattered? I'd rather fight like mad, for everything that will ever matter, because giving in to anything that doesn't will never cure the dream."

"What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended."

"Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing."
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"They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon."


"They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken."


"Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small; no one is too old or too young to do something."
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