Ian Paisley Quotes
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I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman.
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The way that it is to be implemented is that those that use or threaten violence are excluded and prisoners will be kept in unless violence is given up for good.
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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This is a battle that has to be won -- no ifs, no buts!
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Entrance to government cannot be dependent on a date but only when terror and crime carried out by those allied to a political party is gone forever.
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'I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman' 6
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'I say to the Dublin government, Mr Faulkner says it's 'hands across the border to Dublin'. I say, if they don't behave themselves in the South, it will be shots across the border!'
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'Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.'
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There is a finger pointing tonight at IRA-Sinn Fein.
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Come Friday, the world will see what the Protestant people really think of this so-called peace process, which is really a surrender process.
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Today was to be the day when the gun was to be finally taken out of Irish politics.
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....were appointed by the IRA, not the governments.
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'Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow'.
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I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman.
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A foreign government has more say over Northern Ireland than the people of Northern Ireland.
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Take it from me that your condemnation and further exhortation to the leaders of IRA/Sinn Fein is useless in the present drastic and tragic circumstances of Northern Ireland. When are you going to take action?
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'We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.'
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I would rather be British than just.
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'People don't expect to die tomorrow, but they do take out insurance, don't they?'
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There was no agreement between us, there is a great gulf because the southern government still thinks the IRA should be there and by right should be taking part in these discussions and by right should be in any future government of Northern Ireland.
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The more the search-light is put on this, the more we discover there is a cover-up.
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It would be naive to take the IRA at its word,
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I believe that Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace, a time when hate will no longer rule.
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It was amazing that I was ever elected.