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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, was a Northern Irish loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008 and First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2008.
I have never made an inflammatory statement in my life
It was amazing that I was ever elected.
I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman
I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman.
I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.
Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.
Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.
I would rather be British than just.
You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals
Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow.
I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule.
I will never sit down with Gerry Adams . . . he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the devil. In fact, Adams does sit down with the devil.
We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.
Come Friday, the world will see what the Protestant people really think of this so-called peace process, which is really a surrender process.
People don't expect to die tomorrow, but they do take out insurance, don't they?
Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust.
A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.