Daniel O'Connell

"The principle of my political life …. is, that all ameliorations and improvements in political institutions can be obtained by persevering in a perfectly peaceable and legal course, and cannot be obta…"

"I want to make all Europe and America know it – I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the justice we the Irish require – the restoration of our domestic parliament..."

"How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors..."

"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 that sits on our energies, stops the pulsation of the nation’s hear…"

"Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men"

"My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this my native land – in the land of my sires – I am degraded without fault as an…"

"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 battle field . No other principle makes a good soldier."

"Good God, what a brute man becomes when ignorant and oppressed. Oh Liberty! What horrors are committed in thy name! May every virtuous revolutionist remember the horrors of Wexford!"