“I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.”

“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.”

“I thought it would be a good thing to follow John Redmond’s words. I thought for my mother’s sake, her gentle soul, for the sake of my own children, I might go out and fight for to save Europe so that we might have the Home Rule in Ireland in the upshot. I came out to fight for a country that doesn’t exist, and now, Willie, mark my words, it never will.”

“If I had three wishes for my country, they would be these: keep fighting, keep moving forward, and don’t act like a douchebag.”

“To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerful than the fight itself.”

“All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men. But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house. She let out her breath. I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.”