In the realm of poetry, Goldsmith and Tom Moore; of oratory, Sheridan, Emmett, Grattan, O'Connell, Burke, and in later years Charles Stewart Parnell, whose thrilling words I heard a third of a century ago, pleading the cause of his oppressed countrymen.
Stevenson lists influential Irish figures in literature and politics, celebrating their impact on history.
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Never forget that citizenship in such a government carries with it tremendous responsibility, a responsibility that we cannot evade.
Inseparably linked with that portion of its history are names that will live with those of the Cabots and Columbus.
The great navigator in his lonely search for a new pathway to the Indies was buoyed by a courage, a yearning for discovery, scarce greater than that which in the heart of the new continent sustained the later voyagers and discoverers…
It is in very truth a government of the people, in an important sense a government standing separate and apart; its foundations the morality, the intelligence, the patriotism of the people.