"I want to make all Europe and America know it - I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the justice we the Irish require - the restoration of our domestic parliament."

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Source : Speech given at a 'monster' meeting held at Drogheda, June, 1843.

Daniel O'Connell

#Europe And America Quotes #Giving Quotes #Justice Quotes

“This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction.”
“Platitudes are generally the oldest and profoundest of truths ...”
“I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.”
“Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.”
“Iâ€™ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I am, at any time, without any effort. The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each new trapping of domestic life - a pot, a chair, a lamp - threatened to be the thing that sent me through the ice.”
“The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.”
“When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.”
“One minute can decide the outcome of the battle, one hour - the outcome of the campaign, and one day - the fate of the country.”

Source : "Encyclopedia of Russian History" by James R. Millar, Soviet Union, (p. 1504), 2004.

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