"Truth-teller" Quotes from Famous Books
... find the national instincts of our people fully manifested. We find in this early literature a love for the truth-teller and for the hero. Indeed they did not choose as chieftains of their clans men whom the bards could not sing. They reverenced wisdom, whether in king, bard, or ollav, and at the same time there was a communal basis for economic ... — National Being - Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity • (A.E.)George William Russell |