William Smith O'Brien cytaty

William Smith O’Brien – irlandzki polityk i przywódca ruchu Młodej Irlandii.

✵ 17. Październik 1803 – 18. Czerwiec 1864
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“I believe as firmly as I believe any other historical truth—that no nation ever suffered so much from another nation as the Irish have suffered from the English—or for so long a time.”

14 January letter to John Martin: 14, Correspondence between John Martin and William Smith O'Brien relative to a French invasion, 1861 https://books.google.com/books?id=uioenbWx30MC&pg=PA14,

“A people desirous to preserve their freedom cannot be too jealous in watching the encroachment of a centralizing spirit.”

p. 20 https://books.google.com/books?id=4VUBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA20
Principles of Government: Or Meditations in Exile (1856), Chapter II. On Centralized and Local Administration

“History supplies us with examples of almost every possible modification of government.”

p. 16 https://books.google.com/books?id=4VUBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA16
Principles of Government: Or Meditations in Exile (1856), Chapter II. On Centralized and Local Administration