Thomas Davis Quotes

• A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.

  Thomas Davis

  Rivers, People, Important

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• It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.

  Thomas Davis

  Blood, Nations, Willingness

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• As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

  Thomas Davis

  Wind, Land, Waiting

  Thomas Osborne Davis (1920*). “Thomas Davis: Selections from His Prose and Poetry”

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• Come in the evening, or coming in the morning/Come when you're looked for, or come without warning/Kisses and welcomes you'll find here before you/And the oftener you come here the more I'll adore you.

  Thomas Davis

  Missing You, Morning, Kissing

  Thomas Davis (1846). “The Poems of Thomas Davis: Now First Collected : with Notes and Historical Illustrations”, p.51

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• Educate, that you might be free. We are most anxious to get the quiet, strong minded people who are scattered throughout the country to see the force of this great truth.

  Thomas Davis

  Country, Strong, People

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• A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.

  Thomas Davis

  People, Half, Language

  Thomas Osborne Davis (1865). “Literary and Historical Essays”, p.174

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• There are three things without which there is no country--common language, common judicature, and co-tillage land--for without these a country cannot support itself in peace and social union.

  Thomas Davis

  Country, Land, Support

  Thomas Davis (1854). “Literary and Historical Essays”, p.174

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• Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!

  Thomas Davis

  Rose, Shining, Viva

  Thomas Osborne Davis, Thomas Wallis (1857). “The Poems of Thomas Davis: Now First Collected. With Notes and Historical Illustrations”, p.143

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• Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade
  Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

  Thomas Davis

  Lying, Soldier, Fields

  1845 The Spirit of the Nation,'The Battle-Eve of the Brigade'.

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• They're trying to make fuel cells a reality. They want to bring the hydrogen economy to the United States.

  Thomas Davis

  Reality, Cells, Trying

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• They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they who survived fought and drank as of yore, But the land of their heart's hope they never saw more, For in far, foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

  Thomas Davis

  Lying, Heart, Land

  1845 The Spirit of the Nation,'The Battle-Eve of the Brigade'.

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