‘We mean to be free, and in every enemy of tyranny we recognise a brother, wherever be his birthplace; in every enemy of freedom we also recognise our enemy, though he were as Irish as our hills. The whole of Ireland for the people of Ireland—their public property, to be owned and operated as a national heritage, by the labour of free men in a free country. That is our ideal, and when you ask us what are our methods, we reply: ‘Those which lie nearest our hands’. We do not call for a ‘United Nation’. No nation can be united whilst capitalism and landlordism exist. The system divides society into two warring nations—the robbers and the robbed, the idlers and the workers, the rich and the poor, the men of property and the men of no property. Like Tone and Mitchel before us, we appeal to ‘that large and respectable class of the community, the men of no property’.’