Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Davis

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Irish writer Thomas Davis.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Thomas Osborne Davis was an Irish writer; with Charles Gavan Duffy and John Blake Dillon, a founding editor of The Nation, the weekly organ of what came to be known as the Young Ireland movement. While embracing the common cause of a representative, national government for Ireland, Davis took issue with the nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell by arguing for the common ("mixed") education of Catholics and Protestants and by advocating for Irish as the national language.

Irish - Writer | October 14, 1814 - September 16, 1845

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A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.

Thomas Davis

As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

Thomas Davis

Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!

Thomas Davis

They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they who survived fought and drank as of yore, But the land of their heart's hope they never saw more, For in far, foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

Thomas Davis

There are three things without which there is no country--common language, common judicature, and co-tillage land--for without these a country cannot support itself in peace and social union.

Thomas Davis

Educate, that you might be free. We are most anxious to get the quiet, strong minded people who are scattered throughout the country to see the force of this great truth.

Thomas Davis

It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.

Thomas Davis

Come in the evening, or coming in the morning/Come when you're looked for, or come without warning/Kisses and welcomes you'll find here before you/And the oftener you come here the more I'll adore you.

Thomas Davis

A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.

Thomas Davis

Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

Thomas Davis

They're trying to make fuel cells a reality. They want to bring the hydrogen economy to the United States.

Thomas Davis