Daniel O'Connell Quotes

The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood

I will go on quietly and slowly, but I will go on firmly, and with a certainty of success.

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

Every religion is good - every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it.

Whoever commits a crime strengthens his enemy.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.

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

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Raphael says, "Honor is a trait not often found in men, but when it is, it can change everything.