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.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

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.

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!'

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