Editing Seán Lemass (section)

===Lemass quotations===
* '[[Fianna Fáil]] is a slightly constitutional party...but before anything we are a [[Irish republicanism|republican]] party.' (1928)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie/D/0022/D.0022.192803210025.html |title=Dáil Éireann – Volume 22 – 21 March 1928 – PRIVATE DEPUTIES' BUSINESS. – REVIEW OF PRISONERS' CASES—PROPOSED SELECT COMMITTEE |access-date=13 August 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404160152/http://www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie/D/0022/D.0022.192803210025.html |archive-date=4 April 2009 }}</ref>
* 'A rising tide lifts all boats.' (1964, attributed to [[John F. Kennedy]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie/D/0208/D.0208.196404150045.html |title=Dáil Éireann – Volume 208 – 15 April 1964 – Committee on Finance. – Resolution No. 11—General (Resumed) |access-date=13 August 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404160150/http://www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie/D/0208/D.0208.196404150045.html |archive-date=4 April 2009 }}</ref>
* 'The historical task of this generation, as I see it, is to consolidate the economic foundations of our political independence.' (1959)
* 'First and foremost we wish to see the [[United Ireland|re-unification of Ireland]] restored. By every test Ireland is one nation with a fundamental right to have its essential unity expressed in its political institutions.' (1960)
* 'The country is, I think, like an aeroplane at the take-off stage. It has become airborne; that is the stage of maximum risk and any failure of power could lead to a crash. It will be a long time before we can throttle back to level flight.' (1961)
* 'A defeatist attitude now would surely lead to defeat...We can't opt out of the future.' (1965)
* 'I regret that time would not stand still for me so that I could go on indefinitely.' (1966)
* 'RTE was set up by legislation as an instrument of public policy, and, as such is responsible to the government.' (1966)