Britain Quote by Martin McGuinness

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out.…

— John Hume

There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to…

— Bobby Sands

The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.

— Martin McGuinness

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

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

— Paul McCartney

There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations…

— Samuel P. Huntington

If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps…

— Mick Jagger

Our view is that we would want to see the situation in Ireland resolved, but we do not intervene in that situation for tactical…

— Robert Mugabe

“The 'Irish Question' has dogged English politics for four hundred years and will continue to measure out its irresolution in blood and human lives…

— Kevin Toolis

The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the United Kingdom,…

— John Hume

The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland

— James Connolly

Maybe part of my animus against the English is the way they have always treated the Irish and they way they still think about…

— Jane Jacobs