"If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern."

“In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that's really rooted in a nation--and the ultimate source of all its wealth--is its people.”

“Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.”

“No man has the right to say to his country”

Source : Donal McCartney, Pauric Travers, Charles Stewart Parnell (2006). “The Ivy Leaf: The Parnells Remembered : Commemorative Essays”, Univ College Dublin Press

“For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.”

Source : Samuel Lover (1858). “The Lyrics of Ireland. Edited and Annotated by S. Lover”, p.108

“Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?”

“An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.”

“Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.”

“Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.”