Famous Historical Quotes

[michael duffy]

"ich bin ein Berliner" JFK, caused much hilarity in berlin, cos a berliner is a doughnut!

 

[Imatim]

Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love but I can say that it will be my last love.
Jock Stein

 

[Imatim]

What Michael said. Good call.

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I wonder if this one will get chopped too ?

 

[Imatim]

I think it is important to win a match, but I think what is even more important is the manner in which you win.
Jock Stein

 

[Imatim]

 

[michael duffy]

"the earth's flat and michelle obama's a man" tgm.

 

[Imatim]

 

[lcafiero]

"ich bin ein Berliner" JFK, caused much hilarity in berlin, cos a berliner is a doughnut!

True, Michael. We still laugh about that one over here.

 

[michael duffy]

"cover me" butch cassidy.

 

[lcafiero]

Great scene. We were just talking about Life of Brian in another thread.

 

[michael duffy]

Jock Stein to rankjers fan who said "you only won the european cup cos yeez had proddies in yer team" Big Jock replied " well yooz have got 11 in your team, whit did yooz win!"

 

[michael duffy]

True, Michael. We still laugh about that one over here.

always tickled me Larry,a certain doc on here think's we don't get schadenfreude!!!!!

 

[michael duffy]

Great scene. We were just talking about Life of Brian in another thread.

Hail Falcov!!!!!!!he's a man ahead of his time!!!!

 

[lcafiero]

always tickled me Larry,a certain doc on here think's we don't get schadenfreude!!!!!

True. The thing about that quote is that the Berliners ate it up . . . no pun intended. They loved it!

 

[lcafiero]

The quote that started it all . . .

 

[Imatim]

Quotes by Bobby Sands​

In his solemn memory, we publish a brief collection of quotes, some famous, some less well known.
“They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn’t want to be broken.”


“We must see our present fight right through to the very end.”


“We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.”


“Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and economic exploitation of Ireland to judgment day, if she is not halted and ejected.”


“Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small; no one is too old or too young to do something.”


“Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.”


“I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.
“I believe and stand by the God-given right of the Irish nation to sovereign independence, and the right of any Irishman or woman to assert this right in armed revolution. That is why I am incarcerated, naked and tortured.
“Foremost in my tortured mind is the thought that there can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.
“I believe I am but another of those wretched Irishmen born of a risen generation with a deeply rooted and unquenchable desire for freedom. I am dying not just to attempt to end the barbarity of H-Block, or to gain the rightful recognition of a political prisoner, but primarily because what is lost in here is lost for the Republic and those wretched oppressed whom I am deeply proud to know as the ‘risen people’.”


“They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal.”


“I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.”


“I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.”


“Ní bhrisfidh siad mé mar tá an fonn saoirse agus saoirse mhuintir na hEireann i mo chroí. Tiocfaidh lá éigin nuair a bheidh an fonn saoirse seo le taispeáint ag daoine go léir na hEireann ansin tchífidh muid eirí na gealaí.”
[If they aren’t able to destroy the desire for freedom, they won’t break you. They won’t break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we’ll see the rising of the moon]

 

[michael duffy]

True. The thing about that quote is that the Berliners ate it up . . . no pun intended. They loved it!

oh yes Larry, they were tough feckin times!they took it in the spirit it was meant, but berliners have a wicked sense of humour!

 

[lcafiero]

"The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars."

James Connolly

[This, of course, can be said of everyone, not just the Irish.]

 

[michael duffy]

"As long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours, that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself".
Robert the Bruce

 

[michael duffy]

"The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars."

James Connolly

[This, of course, can be said of everyone, not just the Irish.]

never a truer word Larry,it never ceases to amaze me the sacrifices people make,against overwhelmin odds tae be "free"

 

[michael duffy]

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I wonder if this one will get chopped too ?

no happenin mate!

 

[michael duffy]

Quotes by Bobby Sands​

In his solemn memory, we publish a brief collection of quotes, some famous, some less well known.
“They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn’t want to be broken.”


“We must see our present fight right through to the very end.”


“We refuse to lie here in dishonor! We are not criminals, but Irishmen! This is the crime of which we stand accused.”


“Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and economic exploitation of Ireland to judgment day, if she is not halted and ejected.”


“Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small; no one is too old or too young to do something.”


“Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.”


“I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.
“I believe and stand by the God-given right of the Irish nation to sovereign independence, and the right of any Irishman or woman to assert this right in armed revolution. That is why I am incarcerated, naked and tortured.
“Foremost in my tortured mind is the thought that there can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.
“I believe I am but another of those wretched Irishmen born of a risen generation with a deeply rooted and unquenchable desire for freedom. I am dying not just to attempt to end the barbarity of H-Block, or to gain the rightful recognition of a political prisoner, but primarily because what is lost in here is lost for the Republic and those wretched oppressed whom I am deeply proud to know as the ‘risen people’.”


“They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal.”


“I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.”


“I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.”


“Ní bhrisfidh siad mé mar tá an fonn saoirse agus saoirse mhuintir na hEireann i mo chroí. Tiocfaidh lá éigin nuair a bheidh an fonn saoirse seo le taispeáint ag daoine go léir na hEireann ansin tchífidh muid eirí na gealaí.”
[If they aren’t able to destroy the desire for freedom, they won’t break you. They won’t break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we’ll see the rising of the moon]

elected member of the british parliament murdered by thatcher,democracy my arse,