Top 5 Erskine Childers Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “This Irish war, small as it may seem now, will, if it is persisted in, corrupt and eventually ruin not only your army, but your Empire itself. What right has England to torment and demoralise Ireland?”

— Erskine Childers

2. “A keen wind from the west struck our faces, and as swiftly as it had come the fog rolled away from us, in one mighty mass, stripping clean and pure the starry dome of heaven...”

— Erskine Childers

3. “I served four years in the War under the belief, growing ever fainter but held to the end, that it was fought to make such things impossible, and now I am daily witness to the prostitution of the Army I served in to fulfill the many aims I loathed and combated. I am Anglo-Irish by birth. Now I am identifying myself wholly with Ireland...”

— Erskine Childers

4. “One of the charms of Africa, is the long settled periods of pure unclouded sky, in which the sun rises and sets with no flaming splashes of vivid colours, but by gentle, imperceptible gradations of pure light, waning or waxing.”

— Erskine Childers

5. “I had always detested the meddlesome alarmist, who veils ignorance under noisiness, and for ever wails his chant of lugubrious pessimism.”

— Erskine Childers

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