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Top 30 James Connolly Quotes (2025 Update)

James Connolly Quote: “The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars.”

1. “The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.”

2. “Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.”

3. “The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.”

4. “Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “Don’t be ‘practical’ in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.”

5. “Don’t be ‘practical’ in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.”

6. “Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.”

7. “We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest labourer in Ireland today than for any, even the most virtuous, descendant of the long array of murderers, adulterers and madmen who have sat upon the throne of England.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with – a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.”

8. “The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with – a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.”

9. “We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.”

10. “Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.”

11. “No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.”

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James Connolly Quote: “If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.”

12. “If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour.”

13. “The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs.”

14. “If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!”

15. “If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.”

16. “The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and inimical to the progress of humanity.”

17. “Whenever the clergy succeeded in conquering political power in any country, the result has been disastrous to the interests of religion and inimical to the progress of humanity.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “How can a person, or a class, be free when its means of life are in the grasp of another? How can the working class be free when the sole chance of existence of its individual members depends on their ability to make profit for others?”

18. “How can a person, or a class, be free when its means of life are in the grasp of another? How can the working class be free when the sole chance of existence of its individual members depends on their ability to make profit for others?”

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James Connolly Quote: “However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal – an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over all the oceans.”

19. “However it may be for others, for us of the Citizen Army there is but one ideal – an Ireland ruled, and owned, by Irish men and women, sovereign and independent from the centre to the sea, and flying its own flag outward over all the oceans.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.”

20. “Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “History, in general, treats the working class as the manipulator of politics treats the working man – that is to say, with contempt when he remained passive, and with derision, hatred and misrepresentation whenever he dares evince a desire to throw off the yoke of political or social servitude.”

21. “History, in general, treats the working class as the manipulator of politics treats the working man – that is to say, with contempt when he remained passive, and with derision, hatred and misrepresentation whenever he dares evince a desire to throw off the yoke of political or social servitude.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.”

22. “Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “I can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time.”

23. “I can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left...”

24. “Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left...”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “The interests of labour all the world over are identical, it is true, but it is also true that each country had better work out its own salvation on the lines most congenial to its own people.”

25. “The interests of labour all the world over are identical, it is true, but it is also true that each country had better work out its own salvation on the lines most congenial to its own people.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.”

26. “There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “No individual can develop all his powers if he is even partially under the control of another, even if that other sincerely wishes him well.”

27. “No individual can develop all his powers if he is even partially under the control of another, even if that other sincerely wishes him well.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “When questions of ‘class’ interests are eliminated from public controversy a victory is thereby gained for the possessing, conservative class, whose only hope of security lies in such elimination.”

28. “When questions of ‘class’ interests are eliminated from public controversy a victory is thereby gained for the possessing, conservative class, whose only hope of security lies in such elimination.”

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James Connolly Quote: “We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes.”

29. “We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes.”

— James Connolly

James Connolly Quote: “The mind accustomed to political kings can easily be reconciled to social kings – capitalist kings of the workshop, the mill, the railway, the ships, and the docks.”

30. “The mind accustomed to political kings can easily be reconciled to social kings – capitalist kings of the workshop, the mill, the railway, the ships, and the docks.”

— James Connolly

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