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"We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future."

Padraig Pearse, at court-martial on the day before his execution, May 2, 1916.

"I did what was right and stand by it."

Countess Markievicz, at her court-martial.