Patrick Pearse famous quotes

03-28-2025

Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.
-- Patrick Pearse

#Spring #Men #Patriot
There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.
-- Patrick Pearse

#Laughter #Sacrifice #Joy
A country without a language is a country without a soul.
-- Patrick Pearse

#Country #Travel #Soul
Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us
-- Patrick Pearse

#Wise #People #Inspire
We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.
-- Patrick Pearse

#Fighting #Winning #Past
The Republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole nation and of all its parts, cherishing all the children of the nation equally.
-- Patrick Pearse

#Religious #Children #Opportunity
As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.
-- Patrick Pearse

#Attitude #Men #Long
Ireland unfree shall never be at peace
-- Patrick Pearse

#Revolutionary #Unfree #Ireland
Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!
-- Patrick Pearse

#Blood #Slavery #Cleansing
One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...
-- Patrick Pearse

#Powerful #Night #Law
You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win by a better deed.
-- Patrick Pearse

#Children #Passion #Winning

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