Quotes by Robert Emmet

About Robert Emmet:

Robert Emmet was an Irish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader. He led an abortive rebellion against British rule in 1803. He was captured by the British, tried and executed for high treason against the British king.
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Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph.

Robert Emmet

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.

Robert Emmet

Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.

Robert Emmet

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.

Robert Emmet

Author Bio

  • NameRobert Emmet
  • DescriptionIrish nationalist and Republican, orator and rebel leader
  • BornMarch 4, 1778
  • DiedSeptember 20, 1803
  • CountryIreland