Douglas Hyde Quotes

What we want in Ireland is a National University which will bring students together and educate them upon national lines. - Douglas Hyde

What I advocate brings with it no substantial or material advantage at all. It will neither make money nor help to make money. - Douglas Hyde

We must put pressure upon our politicians not to snuff out by their tacit discouragement merely because they do not happen to understand it. - Douglas Hyde

We are told that the keeping alive a language spoken by so small a number of the community is a barrier to progress. - Douglas Hyde

We are above and beyond all politics, all parties and all factions; offending nobody - except the anti-Irishman. - Douglas Hyde

The literary activity of even the eighteenth century among the Gaels was very great. - Douglas Hyde

The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a very powerful destroyer; but it is useless for building up. Love, on the other hand, is like faith; it can move mountains, and faith, we have mountains to move. - Douglas Hyde

Now if we allow our living language to die out, it is almost a certainty that we condemn our literary records to remain in obscurity. - Douglas Hyde

In order to de-Anglicize ourselves, we must at once arrest the decay of the language. We must teach ourselves not to be ashamed of ourselves. - Douglas Hyde

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