JOHN EOIN MACNEILL

We will have no political future if we are not arrested.

In theory I suppose I am a separatist, In practice I would accept any settlement that would enable Irishmen to freely control their own affairs. If the truth were known, I think that this represents the political views of ninety-nine out of every hundred nationalists.

The fact that a man is driven back on feelings and instincts to justify an action or course of action which he has thought over and discussed, is good evidence that what he calls his feelings and instincts are at variance with his better judgment … and may therefore be worthless or dangerous guides in any wider matter involving the fate of his country or his fellow-countrymen.

In theory I suppose I am a separatist, In practice I would accept any settlement that would enable Irishmen to freely control their own affairs. If the truth were known, I think that this represents the political views of ninety-nine out of every hundred nationalists.

The fact that a man is driven back on feelings and instincts to justify an action or course of action which he has thought over and discussed, is good evidence that what he calls his feelings and instincts are at variance with his better judgment … and may therefore be worthless or dangerous guides in any wider matter involving the fate of his country or his fellow-countrymen.

We will have no political future if we are not arrested.