Daniel O'Connell Quotes
- Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.
- Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men
- No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the…
- The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a…
- I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.
- The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood
- I want to make all Europe and America know it – I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the…
- How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors...
- My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this…
- No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus…
- The principle of my political life ... is that all amelioration and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in a perfectly peaceable…
- Every religion is good—every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it.
- Although the Irish language is connected with the many recollections that twine around the hearts of Irishmen, yet the superior utility of the English tongue,…
- Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
- There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.