Are you afraid to strike a blow for your homes?
Must I go and tell them that sent me that the Irishman is a coward as well as a slave?
There's fighting to be done, if there's only men to do it--fighting with the men who wring the life's blood out of you and your land-- fighting with the toadies who are paid by England to grind you down-- fighting with the blasphemers who rob your priests and your chapels-- fighting with the soldiery who live on you, and tax you, and insult your wives and daughters.

It's no child's play is wanted of you.

We want no poltroons in the cause.

We know the people's friends, and we know their enemies; and it's little enough quarter will be going on the day we reckon accounts.

Arrah, boys!" cried he, letting go his foreign air for a moment and dropping into the native, "it's no time for talking at all.
There's some of yez armed already; there's a gun for any mother's son here that will use it for the people, and swear on the book to leave the world with one tyrant less upon it.