"When we have undermined English misgovernment we have paved
the way for Ireland to take her place among the nations of the
earth. And let us not forget that that is the ultimate goal
at which all we Irishmen aim. None of us, whether we be
in America or in Ireland, or wherever we may be, will be
satisfied until we have destroyed the last link which keeps
Ireland bound to England."

(_C.S. Parnell_.)

"I know there are many people in America who think that the
means which we are operating to-day for the good of Ireland
are not sufficiently sharp and decisive ... I would suggest
to those who have constituted themselves the censors of our
movement, would it not be well to give our movement a fair
chance--to allow us to have an Irish Parliament that will give
our people all authority over the police and the judiciary
and all government in the nation, and when equipped with
comparative freedom, then would be the time for those who
think we should destroy the last link that binds us to England
to operate by whatever means they think best to achieve that
great and desirable end? I am quite sure that I speak for the
United Irish League in the matter."

(_J. Devlin, M.P._)

"What was it, after all, that Wolfe Tone, and Fitzgerald, and
Mitchell, and Smith O'Brien, and O'Meagher Condon, and Allen,
Larkins and O'Brien, and all the other gallant Irishmen strove
for, who from generation to generation were inspired with