Youth is a period of idealism. The Communists attract young people by appealing directly to that idealism. Too often, others have failed either to ap…

- Douglas Hyde

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried

- Douglas Hyde

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees…

- Douglas Hyde

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the Englis…

- Douglas Hyde

The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a very powerful des…

- Douglas Hyde

By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us as a seperate nationality..…

- Douglas Hyde

Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

- Douglas Hyde

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

- Douglas Hyde