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You can never have civil liberty so long as strangers and Englishmen make your laws and so long as the occupiers of the soil own not an inch of it.

— Charles Stewart Parnell

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

Cork address (1885)

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England, as he had heard an ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer call it some time ago. Ireland was not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

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.

speech (1885)

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".

Cork address (1885)

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