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I am most thoroughly convinced that the Repeal alone can keep secure the religion and the liberties of the Irish people.

— Daniel O'Connell

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How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors...

Gentlemen, you may soon have the alternative to live as slaves or die as free men

I say now, all all, shall be pardoned, forgiven, forgotten, upon giving us Emancipation, unconditional, unqualified, free, and unshackled.

Good God! what a brute man becomes when ignorant and oppressed! Oh, Liberty, what horrors are perpetrated in thy name! May every virtuous revolutionist remember the horrors of Wexford!

No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.

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