Thomas Davis quotes
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“Come in the evening, or coming in the morning/Come when you're looked for, or come without warning/Kisses and welcomes you'll find here before you/And the oftener you come here the more I'll adore you.”
-- Thomas DavisSource : Thomas Davis (1846). “The Poems of Thomas Davis: Now First Collected : with Notes and Historical Illustrations”, p.51
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“A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.”
-- Thomas DavisSource : Thomas Osborne Davis (1865). “Literary and Historical Essays”, p.174
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“They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they who survived fought and drank as of yore, But the land of their heart's hope they never saw more, For in far, foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.”
-- Thomas DavisSource : 1845 The Spirit of the Nation,'The Battle-Eve of the Brigade'.
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“Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!”
-- Thomas DavisSource : Thomas Osborne Davis, Thomas Wallis (1857). “The Poems of Thomas Davis: Now First Collected. With Notes and Historical Illustrations”, p.143
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“Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.”
-- Thomas DavisSource : 1845 The Spirit of the Nation,'The Battle-Eve of the Brigade'.
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“It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.”
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“As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.”
-- Thomas DavisSource : Thomas Osborne Davis (1920*). “Thomas Davis: Selections from His Prose and Poetry”
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“There are three things without which there is no country--common language, common judicature, and co-tillage land--for without these a country cannot support itself in peace and social union.”
-- Thomas DavisSource : Thomas Davis (1854). “Literary and Historical Essays”, p.174
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“Educate, that you might be free. We are most anxious to get the quiet, strong minded people who are scattered throughout the country to see the force of this great truth.”
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“They're trying to make fuel cells a reality. They want to bring the hydrogen economy to the United States.”
-- Thomas Davis
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