Eamon de Valera Quotations

By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.