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Quotes from I'm Glad You Asked Me That — Éamon de Valera

1882–1975 Ireland

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5 quotes

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

I'm Glad You Asked Me That (2007)

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry — held together with the plaster of fiction.

I'm Glad You Asked Me That (2007)

A Dhomhnall, I have to tell you, you are abolished.

I'm Glad You Asked Me That (2007)

England pretends it is not by the naked sword, but by the good will of the people of the country that she is here. We will draw the naked sword to make her bare her own naked sword.

I'm Glad You Asked Me That (2007)

I am against this Treaty not because I am a man of war but because I am a man of peace. I am against this Treaty because it will not end the centuries of conflict between the two nations of Great Britain and Ireland.

I'm Glad You Asked Me That (2007)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Éamon de Valera (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.