Charles Stewart Parnell (1846 – 1891)
Irish Protestant landowner, nationalist political leader, land reform agitator, Home Rule MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and founder and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.
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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.
Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.
Fellow citizens: The hour to try your souls and to redeem your pledges has arrived.
Pay no rent under any pretext!
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.
Stand together in face of the brutal, cowardly enemies of your race!
Without the help of the people our exertions would be as nothing.
Bring English tyranny to its knees.
No man has the right to fix the boundary to the march of a nation.
No man has the right to say to his country "Thus far shalt thou go and no further".
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