Michael Collins

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 exceeding his brief! Michael Collins: And what is my brief, Cathal? Cathal Brugha: Intelligence. Michael Collins: Actually, Cathal, I'm Minister for Gun-Running, Daylight Robbery, and Bloody Mayhem. Heavenly Blues: We wanna be free, free to do what we wanna do. And we wanna get loaded, and we wanna have a good time. ~ Home ~ Movies ~ Songs ~ Anonymous ~ Women ~ ~ Friendship ~ Life and Success ~ Poems ~ Shakespeare ~ Star Trek ~