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Charles Stewart Parnell
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“Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England, as he had heard an ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer call it some time ago. Ireland was not a geographical fragment, but a nation.”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) first seen 1875 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (26 April 1875)
“The law gave those landlords extensive power at the present time, and unless they went in for a revolution he confessed he did not see how they were going to bring about a radical reform of the system of land tenure in this country.”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) first seen 1878 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Tralee (15 November 1878), quoted in Michael Davitt, The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland; Or, The Story of the Land League Revolution (1904), p. 137
“You can never have civil liberty so long as strangers and Englishmen make your laws and so long as the occupiers of the soil own not an inch of it.”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Navan (12 October 1879), quoted in F. S. L. Lyons, Charles Stewart Parnell [1977] (1991), p. 96
“[Y]ou have an expenditure of five or six millions of pounds sterling—nearly all of it paid by the English taxpayers, and all for the purpose of screwing rack-rents out of the Irish tenants. I am very sure that that sort of thing will not be allowed to go on. Would not it be a very wise thing for the Irish landlords to recognize the situation in time, to see that if they do not be reasonable they will be chucked overboard altogether?”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) first seen 1885 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in Wicklow, reported in United Ireland (17 October 1885), quoted in The Times (31 January 1889), p. 6
“Fellow citizens:The hour to try your souls and to redeem your pledges has arrived.”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Stand together in face of the brutal, cowardly enemies of your race!”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bring English tyranny to its knees.”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pay no rent under any pretext!”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The government, with its bayonets, will learn in a single Winter how powerless are armed forces against the will of a united determined, and self-reliant nation.”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without the help of the people our exertions would be as nothing.”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No man has the right to fix the boundary to the march of a nation.”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No man has the right to say to his country "Thus far shalt thou go and no further".”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While we leave those things to time, circumstances and the future, we must each one of us resolve in our own hearts that we shall at all times do everything which within us lies to obtain Ireland the fullest measure of her rights.”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would not have taken off my coat and gone to work had I not known that we were laying the foundations by this movement for the recovery of our legislative independence.”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Richard Barry O'Brien: Every Irish Nationalist would go for separation if he thought he could get it; we are all Home Rulers because we do not believe separation is possible. Charles Stewart Parnell: I have never gone for separation. I never said I would. The physical force men understand my position very well. I made it clear to them that I would be satisfied with a Parliament, and that I believed in our constitutional movement; but I also said that if our constitutional movement failed, I could not then stand in the way of any man who wished to go further and to try other means. That was the position I always took up. I have never changed, and I still believe in our constitutional movement. I believe that with our own Parliament, if England does not meddle, we can build up our country.”
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846–1891) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Richard Barry O'Brien, The Life of Charles Stewart Parnell, 1846–1891, Vol. II (1898), p. 336