Charles Stewart Parnell Quotes

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Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England…Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

Charles Stewart Parnell
No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country—thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Charles Stewart Parnell
Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

Charles Stewart Parnell
Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having—they are very few—and then do what you think best yourself.

Charles Stewart Parnell
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
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
Stand together in face of the brutal, cowardly enemies of your race!

Charles Stewart Parnell
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-relian

Charles Stewart Parnell
Fellow citizens: The hour to try your souls and to redeem your pledges has arrived.

Charles Stewart Parnell
None of us, whether we are in America or Ireland, or wherever we may be, will be satisfied until we have destroyed the last link which keeps Ireland bound to England.

Charles Stewart Parnell