"A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.“

-Thomas Francis Meagher

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"I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream."

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