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" By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme. "
Eamon de Valera
Big
Industry
Keeping
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" Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country. "
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" The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people. "
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" 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. "
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" Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War. "
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Stand
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Burn
Feeling
" If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night. "
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Come
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Always
Just
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Garden
Food
" When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end. "
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" From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality. "
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