It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to… — John Boyle O'Reilly Admiration Copy Share Image
The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared… — John Boyle O'Reilly Between Copy Share Image
A good boxer, in striking the round blow, instead of loosening body and arm, gathers himself into a heap of muscularity and… — John Boyle O'Reilly Arm Copy Share Image
With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo. — John Boyle O'Reilly Advance Copy Share Image
Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion… — John Boyle O'Reilly Anchors Copy Share Image
You gave me the key of your heart, my love; Then why did you make me knock? Oh that was yesterday, saints… — John Boyle O'Reilly Love Copy Share Image
Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a… — John Boyle O'Reilly Attending Copy Share Image
For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year. — John Boyle O'Reilly Break Copy Share Image
The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter… — John Boyle O'Reilly Abolition Copy Share Image
All that is worth seeing in good boxing can best be witnessed in a contest with soft gloves. Every value is called… — John Boyle O'Reilly Best Copy Share Image
How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now… — John Boyle O'Reilly Break Copy Share Image
They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore. — John Boyle O'Reilly Flying Copy Share Image
... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road. — John Boyle O'Reilly Every man Copy Share Image
Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population… — John Boyle O'Reilly Etc Copy Share Image
Women are at once the guardians and the well-spring of the world's faith, morality, and tenderness; and if ever they are degraded… — John Boyle O'Reilly Beg Copy Share Image
When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near. — John Boyle O'Reilly Honor Copy Share Image
The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew… — John Boyle O'Reilly Antithesis Copy Share Image
It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A… — John Boyle O'Reilly Aim Copy Share Image
Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark… — John Boyle O'Reilly Based Copy Share Image
Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart. — John Boyle O'Reilly Excellence Copy Share Image
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean… — John Boyle O'Reilly Abomination Copy Share Image
