It echoes and re-echoes through the resolutions of every meeting, and constitutes for many orators their total stock of political ideas.

It provides the title of the Irish delegation to Parliament, and is endorsed at General Election after General Election by a great and unchanging majority.

A people such as this is not to be exterminated.

An ideal such as this is not to be destroyed.

Recognise the one, sever the ligatures that check the free flow of blood through the veins of the other, and enrich your federation of autonomous peoples with another rich individuality.