They gave us stepping-stones, but they would not walk on them.

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A comment made in the chamber of Dáil Éireann in January 1970 about the government under Michael Collins and W.T. Cosgrave in the aftermath of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. (Irish Times; The community values of an old Fianna Failer recalled; 22 October 2005)

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