Republic Quotes

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

Our job as Americans and as Republicans is to dislodge the traitors from every place where they've been sent to do their traitorous work.

The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.

Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.

The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

Republicans are horrible with civil liberties, and not so good with dollars and cents. Democrats are horrible with dollars and cents, and not so good with civil liberties.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

It is a greater thing to be a good citizen than to be a good Republican or a good Democrat.

I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.

Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.

As a rule, large capitalists are Republicans and small capitalists are Democrats, but workingmen must remember that they are all capitalists, and that the many small ones, like the fewer large ones, are all politically supporting their class interests, and this is always and everywhere the capitalist class.

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing their objectives is to condemn our Republic to ultimate strangulation and death.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.