Ireland Quotes by Patrick Pearse

The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness…

— Patrick Pearse

You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our…

— Patrick Pearse

“Hail, oh woman, who was so afflicted, It was our ruin that you were in chains, Our fine land in the possession of thieves...…

— Patrick Pearse

As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

— Patrick Pearse

We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We…

— Patrick Pearse

One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of…

— Patrick Pearse

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy…

— Patrick Pearse

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

— Patrick Pearse

We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this.

— Patrick Pearse

Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is…

— Patrick Pearse

A country without a language is a country without a soul.

— Patrick Pearse

“He may seem the fool who has given his all, by the wise men of the world; but it was the apparent fools who…

— Patrick Pearse

Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

— Patrick Pearse