Charles Stewart Parnell quotes

Charles Stewart Parnell was an influential Irish politician and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party. A central figure in the movement for Irish Home Rule, he played a key role in transforming British-Irish politics in the late 19th century. He is remembered for his powerful leadership and the controversy that surrounded his later years. Here are 14 of his quotes:

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

Charles Stewart Parnell

No man has the right to say to his country "Thus far shalt thou go and no further".

Charles Stewart Parnell

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

Charles Stewart Parnell

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Fellow citizens:The hour to try your souls and to redeem your pledges has arrived.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Pay no rent under any pretext!

Charles Stewart Parnell

I would not have taken off my coat and gone to work had I not known that we were laying the foundations by this movement for the recovery of our legislative independence.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Stand together in face of the brutal, cowardly enemies of your race!

Charles Stewart Parnell

Without the help of the people our exertions would be as nothing.

Charles Stewart Parnell

The government, with its bayonets, will learn in a single Winter how powerless are armed forces against the will of a united determined, and self-reliant nation.

Charles Stewart Parnell

While we leave those things to time, circumstances and the future, we must each one of us resolve in our own hearts that we shall at all times do everything which within us lies to obtain Ireland the fullest measure of her rights.

Charles Stewart Parnell

The law gave those landlords extensive power at the present time, and unless they went in for a revolution he confessed he did not see how they were going to bring about a radical reform of the system of land tenure in this country.

Charles Stewart Parnell