"It is not those who can inflict the most but those that can suffer the most who will conquer."
— Terence MacSwiney

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Quoted in Pete Hamill, "'It is those that can suffer most who will conquer'" [Review of J. Bowyer Bell's The Secret Army: The IRA], The New York Times (5 September 1971), and in Brian Maye, "An Irishman's Diary on a prophetic play by Terence MacSwiney", The Irish Times (12 November 2014). Some sources replace "conquer" with "prevail"