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After all there is the two edged sword that will never fail you, with enthusiasm for one of its edges and irony for the other. However mired and weedy be the current of life there will be always joy and loyalty enough left to keep you unwavering in the faith that politics is not as it seems in clouded moments, a mere gabble and squabble of selfish interests, but that it is the State in action. And the State is the name by which we call the great human conspiracy against hunger and cold, against loneliness and ignorance; the State is the foster-mother and warden of the arts, of love, of comradeship, of all that redeems from despair that strange adventure which we call human life.

Thomas Kettle

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.

Thomas Kettle

If I live, I mean to spend the rest of my life working for perpetual peace. I have seen war and faced artillery and know what an outrage it is against simple men.

Thomas Kettle

My only counsel to Ireland is that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European.

Thomas Kettle

Thomas Kettle

Thomas Kettle

Born: February 9, 1880

Died: September 9, 1916 (aged 36)

Bio: Thomas Michael "Tom" Kettle was an Irish economist, journalist, barrister, writer, poet, soldier and Home Rule politician. As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he was Member of Parliament for East Tyrone from 1906 to 1910 at Westminster.

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