Quotes by John Boyle O'Reilly

“Be silent and safe silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.”

“Be true to your word and your work and your friend.”

“It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.”

“It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who i...”

“Organized charity scrimped and iced In the name of the cautious statistical Christ.”

“Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you.”

“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”

“Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.”

“Organized charity scrimped and iced In the name of the cautious statistical Christ.”

“How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make. As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse. Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us, neck and wrist. Thread by...”

“The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.”

“I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.”

“The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love;O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.But I send you a cream-white rosebud With a flush on its petal tips,F...”

“You gave me the key of your heart, my love;Then why did you make me knock?Oh that was yesterday, saints above!And last night—I changed the lock!”

“For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose h...”

“Though it lash the shallows that line the beach, Afar from the great sea-deeps,There is never a storm whose might can reach Where the vast leviathan sleeps.Like a mighty thought in a mighty mind In...”

“They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.”

“Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.”

“The world is large when weary leagues two loving hearts divideBut the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.”

“Be silent and safe—silence never betrays you.”