Wolfe Tone - To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection

To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils and to assert the independence of my country- these were my objectives. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter - these were my means.

- Wolfe Tone

source: Sean Cronin, Richard Roche, Theobald Wolfe Tone (1973). “Freedom the Wolfe Tone way”

topic: Country, Memories, Mean, Denominations, Dissension, Irishmen, Abolish