Tom Kettle Quotes

• If I live, I mean to spend the rest of my life working for perpetual peace. I have seen war and faced artillery and know what an outrage it is against simple men.

  Tom Kettle

  War, Mean, Men

  Tom Kettle (1968). “The day's burden and other essays”

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• My only counsel to Ireland is that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European.

  Tom Kettle

  Order, Ireland

  Tom Kettle (1968). “The day's burden and other essays”

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• Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.

  Tom Kettle

  Sunset, Islands, Half

  Tom Kettle (1918). “The day's burden: studies, literary & political and miscellaneous essays”

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• Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you know how to receive them, and to entertain, to be entertained, and take what they have to offer without allowing them to dominate you.

  Tom Kettle

  Views, Ideas, Mind

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