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A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.

A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.

Thomas Davis
Rivers, People, Important

It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.

Thomas Davis
Blood, Nations, Willingness

As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

Thomas Davis
Wind, Land, Waiting
Thomas Osborne Davis (1920*). “Thomas Davis: Selections from His Prose and Poetry”

Educate, that you might be free. We are most anxious to get the quiet, strong minded people who are scattered throughout the country to see the force of this great truth.

Thomas Davis
Country, Strong, People

Come in the evening, or coming in the morning/Come when you're looked for, or come without warning/Kisses and welcomes you'll find here before you/And the oftener you come here the more I'll adore you.

Thomas Davis
Missing You, Morning, Kissing
Thomas Davis (1846). “The Poems of Thomas Davis: Now First Collected : with Notes and Historical Illustrations”, p.51

A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.

Thomas Davis
People, Half, Language
Thomas Osborne Davis (1865). “Literary and Historical Essays”, p.174

There are three things without which there is no country--common language, common judicature, and co-tillage land--for without these a country cannot support itself in peace and social union.

Thomas Davis
Country, Land, Support
Thomas Davis (1854). “Literary and Historical Essays”, p.174

Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!

Thomas Davis
Rose, Shining, Viva
Thomas Osborne Davis, Thomas Wallis (1857). “The Poems of Thomas Davis: Now First Collected. With Notes and Historical Illustrations”, p.143

Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

Thomas Davis
Lying, Soldier, Fields
1845 The Spirit of the Nation,'The Battle-Eve of the Brigade'.

They're trying to make fuel cells a reality. They want to bring the hydrogen economy to the United States.

Thomas Davis
Reality, Cells, Trying

They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they who survived fought and drank as of yore, But the land of their heart's hope they never saw more, For in far, foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

Thomas Davis
Lying, Heart, Land
1845 The Spirit of the Nation,'The Battle-Eve of the Brigade'.

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