Eamon de Valera Quotes

• God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

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  Topics in God

• Whenever I wanted to know what the Irish people wanted, I had only to examine my own heart and it told me straight off what the Irish people wanted.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• Why doesn’t he use a spoon?

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Hope, Prosperity

• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and… we need a quarter of a million men.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in National, Services

• Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

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  Topics in Sympathy

  Tags in Ourselves

• The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

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  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in American

• When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

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  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Nation, Courage

• We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Belligerent

• Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven’t used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Government

• We hope that the plain people – the labourers and small farmers – will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

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  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in People

• We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves

• By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

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  Tags in National, Industry

• Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

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  Tags in Dangers, Combination

• If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War

• The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Economic, Social, Problems

• Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain’s stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proudest, Person

• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acting

• We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Glorious, Heritage

• I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human, Feeling, Europe

Eamon de Valera (21)

Birth:	14th October, 1882
Death:	29th August, 1975
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Politician, Teacher

About

Eamon de Valera was born in New York City, United States. He was an Irish politician and teacher. He was one of the dominant political figures in twentieth century Ireland. His political career spanned over half a century, from 1917 to 1973; he served multiple terms as head of government and head of state. He also led the introduction of the Constitution of Ireland. In 1904, he graduated in mathematics from the Royal University of Ireland.  In 1906, he secured a post as teacher of mathematics at Carysfort Teachers' Training College for women in Blackrock, County Dublin.

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