Eamon de Valera Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”