We must put pressure upon our politicians not to snuff out by their tacit discouragement merely because they do not happen to understand it.

We are disappointed that politicians of both parties chose to toss overboard the First Amendment and free artistic and creative expression in favor of political expediency,

Englishmen have very noble and excellent qualities which I should like to see imitated here, but I should not like to imitate them in everything. I like our own habits and character better, they are more consonant to my nature; I like our own turn of thought, our own characteristics, and above all I like our own language.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.