“The Nationalists of Ireland stand for the complete independence of Ireland, and they stand for nothing else.  In the English Empire they have no part or lot, and they wish to have no part or lot.  We stand for the Irish nation, free and independent and outside the English Empire.”—­(Irish Freedom.)

“Our aim is the establishment of an Irish Republic, for the simple and sole reason that no other ending of our quarrel with England could be either adequate or final.  This is the one central and vital point of agreement among all who are worthy of the name of Irish Nationalists—­that Ireland is a separate nation—­separate in thought, mind, in ideals and outlooks.  Come what may, we work for Ireland as separate from England as Germany is separate.”—­(Ib.)

“Year by year the pilgrimage to the grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone grows more significant of the rising tide of militant and uncompromising Nationalism, more significant of the fact that Young Ireland has turned away from the false thing that has passed for patriotism, and has begun to reverence only the men and the things and the memories that stand for Ireland an independent nation.  Paying tribute to the memory of men like Tone, lifting up the language of Ireland from the mire, linking up the present with the old days of true patriotic endeavour—­these are the doings that will eventually bring our land from the mazes of humbug into the clear dawn that heralds Nationhood.”—­(The Leinster Leader.)

    “The object aimed at by the advanced National party is the
    recovery of Ireland’s national independence and the severance
    of all political connection with England.”—­(J.  Devoy.)

“In the better days that are approaching, the soil of Ireland will be populated by a race of Irishmen free and happy and thriving, owning no master under the Almighty, and owning no flag but the green flag of an independent Irish nation.”—­(W.  O’Brien, M.P.)

“In supporting Home Rule for Ireland we abandon no principle of Irish nationhood as laid down by the fathers in the Irish movement for independence, from Wolfe Tone and Emmett to John Mitchell, and from Mitchell to Kickham and Parnell.”—­(J.  Redmond.)

    “Our ultimate goal is the national independence of our
    country.”—­(Ib.)

    “In its essence the National movement is the same to-day as it
    was in the days of Hugh O’Niell, Owen Roe, Emmett, or of Wolfe
    Tone.”—­(Ib.)

    “We are as much rebels to England’s rule as our forefathers
    were in ’98.”—­(Ib.)