Famous Quotes by James Larkin

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• For years and years I have done the work I was born for.

  James Larkin#Born 76

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• We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

  James Larkin#Calls 65

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• I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.

  James Larkin#Aware 60

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• Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.

  James Larkin#Home 59

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• There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

  James Larkin#Religion 60

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• We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.

  James Larkin#Death 57

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• Man must be associated with his fellows.

  James Larkin#Associated 60

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• We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.

  James Larkin#Badly 57

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• The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.

  James Larkin#Among 53

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• A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

  James Larkin#Arrangement 51

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