Michael Collins

1996

Michael Collins: Give *us* the future, we've had enough of your past. Give us back our country, to live in , to grow in, to love.

Michael Collins: There was a man in west Cork who proposed to five sisters. Kitty Kiernan: I suppose they all refused. Michael Collins: Then the father died and he proposed to the mother. Kitty Kiernan: Are you trying to tell me something? Michael Collins: I was working up to a proposal.

(Michael Collins arrives at the ceremony to take down the British flag) British officer: You're seven minutes late, Mr Collins. Michael Collins: You've kept us waiting 700 years. You can have your seven minutes.

(as the British flag comes down) Michael Collins: So that's what all the bother was about.

Michael Collins: There is one weapon that the British cannot take away from us: we can ignore them.

Kitty Kiernan: So which one of you gunslingers is going to ask me to dance?

Harry Boland: What happens next time? Michael Collins: Next time, Harry, we won't play by their rules. We'll play by our own.

Lincoln prison chaplain: I can't understand your politics, but I appreciate your integrity.

Michael Collins: I want peace and quiet. I want it so much I'd die for it.

Michael Collins: I hate them for making hate necessary, and I'll do what I can to end it.

Soames: The problem with the Irish is that they'll sing at the drop of a hat, but ask them to talk and they won't.

Cathal Brugha: The Minister is as usual exceeding his brief! Michael Collins: And what is my brief, Cathal? Cathal Brugha: Intelligence. Michael Collins: Bullshit! I'm Minister for Gun-Running, Daylight Robbery, and General Mayhem.

Joe O'Reilly: You know what he'd say if he saw you right now, Kitty? Get up off the parliamentary side of your ass and put a bit of curve in your face.

Michael Collins: If they shut me up, who will take my place?

(Collins and his men have just intercepted an intelligence report from the Royal Ulster Constabulary) Michael Collins: Jesus, these bastards know more about us than our own mothers.

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