Comrades - We are living in momentous times.
We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.
We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.
By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.
A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.
It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have tried to get some measure of justice, some measure of betterment, they deny the right of the human being to associate with his fellow.
Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.
The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to strike a fresh blow.
The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.
Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.
The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland.
Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
For years and years I have done the work I was born for.
I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.
I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.
I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.
I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants.
I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.
Intolerance has been the curse of our country.
