We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused..

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield..

Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal.

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do some….

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ire….

I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul..

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea..

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom..

All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy. There is no source or fo….

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken..

Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue ….

I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime..

I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people..

My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations. But the people stood by us.….

They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, d….

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

We must see our present fight right through to the very end..

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children..