Society of United Irishmen/1793-97

Famous quotes containing the words society, united and/or irishmen:

    Probably I should not consciously and deliberately forsake my particular calling to do the good which society demands of me, to save the universe from annihilation; and I believe that a like but infinitely greater steadfastness elsewhere is all that now preserves it.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    All comes united to th’ admiring eyes;
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)