Bobby Sands

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.

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

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.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.