Martin McGuinness famous quotes

03-25-2025

British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for a slice of the cake will implement British policy and remain silent when Irish people are murdered and oppressed. It is they who are responsible for prolonging the war in Ireland. Without the quislings, without the collaborators, we would already have reached freedom.
-- Martin McGuinness

#War #Cake #People
But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.
-- Martin McGuinness

#Leadership #Support #Facts
The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.
-- Martin McGuinness

#Military #Car #Elements
The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.
-- Martin McGuinness

#Gun #Doors #Government
That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.
-- Martin McGuinness

#People #Healthy #Prepared
Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland.
-- Martin McGuinness

#Party #Islands #Growing
Our ability to make a decision about the declaration is hampered by the British government being reluctant to give us the clarification which we require.
-- Martin McGuinness

#Government #Giving #Decision
Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.
-- Martin McGuinness

#Gun #Doors #British
The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move.
-- Martin McGuinness

#Moving #Party #Important
The reality is that the people that we represent are no longer going to be second-class citizens in their own country.
-- Martin McGuinness

#Country #Reality #Class
The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.
-- Martin McGuinness

#Government #Needs #British
Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.
-- Martin McGuinness

#Mistake #Thinking #Process
If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.
-- Martin McGuinness

#Gun #Doors #Government
I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.
-- Martin McGuinness

#Done #Ashamed
Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents.
-- Martin McGuinness

#Country #Responsibility #Decision
Freedom can be gained only at the point of an IRA rifle, and I apologize to no one for saying that we support the freedom fighters of the IRA.
-- Martin McGuinness

#Support #Ira #Rifles

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