Michael Joseph Barry Quotes

Michael Joseph Barry was an Irish poet, author, and political figure.

✵ 1817 – 23. January 1889
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Michael Joseph Barry Quotes

“But whether on the scaffold high
Or in the battle's van,
The fittest place where man can die
Is where he dies for man!”

The Dublin Nation, Sept. 28, 1844, Vol. ii. p. 809, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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