Thomas Francis Meagher Quotes

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• Great interests demand great safeguards.
• A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not…
• I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my…
• It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a…
• The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.
• The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
• But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their…
• A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.
• Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime…
• I have done what I felt to be my duty.
• The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.
• The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be…

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