“I remember when Parnell was asked if he would accept as a final settlement the Home Rule compromise proposed by Mr. Gladstone.  I remember his answer.  He said ’I believe in the policy of taking from England anything we can wring from her which will strengthen our hands to go for more.’”—­(Ib.)

“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 the spirit of revolution? ...  In what respect does our policy differ from the purpose of these men?”—­(Ib.)

“In my opinion, and in the opinion of the vast majority of the advanced Nationalists of Ireland, the Repeal of the Union is not the full Nationalist demand; separation is the full Nationalist demand; that is the right on which we stand, the Nationalist right of Ireland.”—­(J.  Dillon, M.P.)

    “I should never have dedicated my life to this great struggle
    if I did not see at the end the crowning and the consummation
    of our work—­a free and independent nation.”—­(Ib.)

    “We aim at nothing else than establishing a new nation upon
    the map of Europe.”—­(Dr. Douglas Hyde.)

“If there is any man in this audience who says to us as representing that Parliamentary movement—­’I don’t believe in your Parliamentary ideas, I don’t accept Home Rule, I go beyond it; I believe in an independent Irish nation’—­if any man says this, I say that we don’t disbelieve in it.  These are our tactics—­if you are to take a fortress, first take the outer works.”—­(T.M.