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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.

— Charles Stewart Parnell Galway speech (1880)

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

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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.

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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".

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