United Irishmen

Famous quotes containing the words united and/or irishmen:

“... the yearly expenses of the existing religious system ... exceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)

“My one claim to originality among Irishmen is that I have never made a speech.”
—George Moore (1852–1933)