Ireland unfree shall never be at peace

- Patrick Pearse

The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the…

- Patrick Pearse

A country without a language is a country without a soul.

- Patrick Pearse

As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

- Patrick Pearse

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter…

- Patrick Pearse

Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire; this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this…

- Patrick Pearse

We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed …

- Patrick Pearse

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

- Patrick Pearse

We are ready to die and shall die cheerfully and proudly, you must not grieve for all of this.

- Patrick Pearse