"The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It was one of the very few that was still democratic in 1939. This book shows how the steely determination of one man, Kevin O'Higgins, made this possible. O'Higgins faced down mutinies in both the Gardai and the Army. He dissolved the DÃ¡il Courts which were a parallel system that might easily have undermined the conventional courts. With WT Cosgrave, he put through a constitution which reconciled the local opponents of independence with the new State."

-- John Bruton

#Determination Quotes #War Quotes #Book Quotes

“For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.”
“It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun”
“The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.”

Source : 'Dubin's Lives' (1979) p. 20
“Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people among whom we are living to believe this; it flatters and satisfies their self-complacency.”

Source : Paul Laurence Dunbar (2010). “The Sport of the Gods: and Other Essential Writings”, p.358, Modern Library
“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
“When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.”

Source : Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.19, Hachette UK
“When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat.”

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