We must put pressure upon our politicians not to snuff out by their tacit discouragement merely because they do not happen to understand it.
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What I advocate brings with it no substantial or material advantage at all. It will neither make money nor help to make money.Douglas Hyde
Englishmen have very noble and excellent qualities which I should like to see imitated here, but I should not like to imitate them in everything. I like our own habits and character better, they are more consonant to my nature I like our own turn of thought, our own characteristics, and above all I like our own language.
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I cannot conceive a more acute pain in the power of sentiment to inflict than that which I should feel if, after a life passed in England or the colonies or India, I were to come back to my native mountains and find that the indifference or the actual discouragement of our leaders had succeeded in destroying the language of my childhood.
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Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
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We are told that the keeping alive a language spoken by so small a number of the community is a barrier to progress.
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