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Our Party is so strong because of its great unity and cohesion based on the Juche idea and centring on the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung. (OJI 24-5) An epoch, to be truly revolutionary, must have a dominating number of men with the revolutionary spirit -- ready to dare all, and take all risks for the sake of their ideals. (Nov 13 1915) It is not the will of the majority which ultimately prevails; that which ultimately prevails is the ideal of the noblest of each generation. Happy indeed that race and generation in which the ideal of the noblest and the will of the majority unite. (March 18 1916) There are times in history when we realise that it is easier to convert a multitude than it ordinarily is to convert an individual; when indeed ideas seem to seize upon the masses as contra-distinguished by ordinary times when individuals slowly seize ideas. The propagandist toils on for decades in seeming failure and ignominy, when suddenly some great event takes place in accord with the principles he has been advocating, and immediately he finds that the seed he has been sowing is springing up in plants that are covering the earth. (Feb 9 1914) IRELAND'S REPUBLICAN LEADERS AS EMBODIERS OF IRISH PATRIOTISM AND INTERNATIONALISM Wolf Tone was abreast of the revolutionary thought of his day, as are the Socialist Republicans of our day. He saw clearly, as we see, that a dominion as rooted in any country as British dominion in Ireland can only be dislodged by a revolutionary impulse in line with the development of the entire epoch. ... He, by voice and pen, inculcated the republican principles of the French Revolution and counselled his countrymen to embark the national movement on the crest of that revolutionary wave. ... High up in the topmost niches of the temple a liberated human race will erect to the heroes and martyrs who have watered the tree of liberty with the blood of their body and the sweat of their intellect, ... a grateful Irish people will carve the name of our precursor, Theobald Wolfe Tone. (Aug 13 1898) We are told to imitate Wolfe Tone, but the greatness of Wolfe Tone lay in the fact that he imitated nobody. The needs of his time called for a man able to shake from his mind the intellectual fetters of the past, and to unite in his own person the hopes of the new revolutionary faith and the ancient aspirations of an oppressed people. (Aug 5 1899) In Ireland at that time there were not only two nations divided into Catholics and non-Catholics, but each of those two nations in turn was divided into other two, the rich and the poor. ... The times were propitious for a union of the two democracies of Ireland. ... To accomplish this union and make it a living force in the life of the nation, there was required the activity of a revolutionist with statesmanship enough to find a common point upon which the two elements could unite, and some great event dramatic enough in its character to arrest the attention of all and fire them with a common feeling. The first, the man, revolutionist and statesman, was found in the person of Theobald Wolfe Tone, and the second, the event, in the French Revolution. (Nov 1910) All students who have investigated the matter are as one in conceding that Emmet's conspiracy was more of a working class character than its predecessors... Such were the domestic materials upon which the conspiracy of Emmet rested -- working class elements fired with the hope of political and social emancipation. Abroad he sought alliance with the French Republic -- the incarnation of the political, social, and religious unrest and revolution of the age, and in Great Britain he formed alliance with the 'Sassenach' reformers who were conspiring to overthrow the English monarchy. ... 3

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