Michael Collins

Following up a conversation when the 3 birds reunited in HK, I have found more quotes by Michael Collins, as presented in the 1996 Movie

Michael Collins (to the brits): 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.

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.

[Collins and his men have just intercepted an intelligence report from the Royal Irish Constabulary]
Michael Collins: Jesus, these bastards know more about us than our own mothers.