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John Edward Redmond Quotes |
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Type: Politician Quotes Category: Irish Politician Quotes Year of Birth: 1856 Year of Death: 1918 Nationality: Irish Find on Amazon: John Edward Redmond Related Authors: John Hume John Bruton Gerry Adams Jim Walsh Martin McGuinness Boyle Roche Bernadette Devlin Dick Spring |
Altho that is so, Ireland has always denied and Ireland still denies that the Union was binding upon her either legally or morally. And here on this historic occasion we have assembled to renew our protest and to place it upon record.
John Edward Redmond Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions. John Edward Redmond We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged. John Edward Redmond Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. John Edward Redmond |
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