34 Quotes by Eamon de Valera

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

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry – held together with the plaster of fiction.

All history is man’s efforts to realise ideals.

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

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

Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn’t have done – we were too trained in English democracy to sit down under a dictatorship which is what the American system really is.

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.