As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.
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Englishmen have very noble and excellent qualities which I should like to see imitated here, but I should not like to imitate them in everything. I like our own habits and character better, they are more consonant to my nature I like our own turn of thought, our own characteristics, and above all I like our own language.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
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
We are told that the keeping alive a language spoken by so small a number of the community is a barrier to progress.
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I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.
Douglas Hyde
What we want in Ireland is a National University which will bring students together and educate them upon national lines.
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