Michael Davitt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.
-- Michael Davitt

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They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained by the consciousness of my imputed 'crime' being an honourable one
-- Michael Davitt

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These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.
If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string
In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless.
There is no justice in following unjust laws.
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.

Michael Davitt famous quotes

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