Top 19 Quotes by Eamon de Valera

By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.