the path to freedom notes by General Michael Collins August 1922 our object in building up a country Economically must not be lost sight of, that object is not to be able to boast of enormous wealth or of a great volume of trade for their own sake, it is not to see our country covered with smoking chimneys and factories, it is not to show a great national balance sheet,nor to point to a people producing wealth with the self obliteration of a hive of bees, the real riches of the Irish nation will be the men and woman of the Irish nation the extent to which they are rich in body and mind and character. ( Michael Collins )
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