Charles Stewart Parnell

“The cause of Ireland is the cause of humanity.”

“No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country, 'Thus far shalt thou go and no further.'”

“If I were an Englishman I should not see the same necessity for the separation of the two countries; but I am an Irishman, and I see that necessity.”

“We will not be 'convinced' by the bayonets of the Guards.”

“Why should we not say to England, 'We will give you everything you want, if you will give us what we want - the right to govern ourselves'?”

“We stand today in the same position that our ancestors occupied. We declare that it is the duty of every Irishman to free his country if he can.”

“A true revolutionary should be ready to perish in the flames of his own passion.”

“Keep a firm grip on your homesteads.”