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It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.

— Éamon de Valera

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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)

The Irish genius has always stressed spiritual and intellectual rather than material values.

Ireland Among the Nations (1933)

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

I'm Glad You Asked Me That (2007)

Next to her services to religion, Ireland's greatest contribution to the welfare of humanity has been the example of devotion to freedom which she has given throughout seven hundred years.

Ireland Among the Nations (1933)

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