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Charles Stewart Parnell Quotes

1846–1891 Ireland

Charles Stewart Parnell (27 June 1846 – 6 October 1891) was an Irish Protestant landowner, nationalist political leader, land reform agitator, Home Rule MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.

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Also known as: Charles stewart parnell

Random Charles Stewart Parnell quote

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Without the help of the people our exertions would be as nothing.

Cork address (1885)

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England, as he had heard an ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer call it some time ago. Ireland was not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

speech (1885)

You must show him … by leaving him severely alone.

No man has the right to say to his country "Thus far shalt thou go and no further".

Cork address (1885)

No man has the right to fix the boundary to the march of a nation.

Cork address (1885)

You can never have civil liberty so long as strangers and Englishmen make your laws and so long as the occupiers of the soil own not an inch of it.

Fellow citizens:The hour to try your souls and to redeem your pledges has arrived.

No Rent" Manifesto (1881)

Stand together in face of the brutal, cowardly enemies of your race!

No Rent" Manifesto (1881)

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

Cork address (1885)

Pay no rent under any pretext!

No Rent" Manifesto (1881)

I would not have taken off my coat and gone to work had I not known that we were laying the foundations by this movement for the recovery of our legislative independence.

Galway speech (1880)

The government, with its bayonets, will learn in a single Winter how powerless are armed forces against the will of a united determined, and self-reliant nation.

No Rent" Manifesto (1881)

The law gave those landlords extensive power at the present time, and unless they went in for a revolution he confessed he did not see how they were going to bring about a radical reform of the system of land tenure in this country.

Bring English tyranny to its knees.

No Rent" Manifesto (1881)

While we leave those things to time, circumstances and the future, we must each one of us resolve in our own hearts that we shall at all times do everything which within us lies to obtain Ireland the fullest measure of her rights.

Cork address (1885)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Stewart Parnell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.