Patrick Pearse Quotes

1879–1916 Ireland

Patrick Henry Pearse (10 November, 1879 – 3 May, 1916), known in Irish as Pádraic, Pádraig or Pádraig Anraí Mac Piarais, was a teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist and political activist who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916. He was declared "President of the Provisional Government" of the Irish Republic in one of the bulletins issued by the Rising's leaders, a status that was however disputed by others associated with the rebellion both then and subsequently.

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Life springs from death; and from the graves of patriot men and women spring living nations.

We seem to have lost; but we have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on its tradition to the future.

Because I am of the people, I understand the people,
I am sorrowful with their sorrow, I am hungry with their desire;
My heart is heavy with the grief of mothers,
My eyes have been wet with the tears of children.

I say to my people's masters: ...
Beware of the thing that is coming, beware of the risen people,
who shall take what ye would not give. Did ye think to conquer the people,
Or that Law is stronger than life and than men's desire to be free?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Patrick Pearse (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.