Eamon de Valera War Quotations

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.