I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.
“We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.”
“Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.”