In a little while it will be all over. We may fail. But the rights for which we contend will not die.
Letter from Batoche, N.W. T. to The Irish World (6 May 1885), also published as " An Appeal for Justice" in The Gibbet of Regina : The Truth about Riel, Sir John A. Macdonald and His Cabinet Before Public Opinion, by One who Knows (1886) by One who knows, Napoléon Thompson, p. 186
Kontext: In a little while it will be all over. We may fail. But the rights for which we contend will not die. A day of reckoning will come to our enemies and of jubilee to my people. The hated yoke of English domination and arrogance will be broken in this land, and the long-suffering victims of their injustice will, with God's blessing, re-enter into the peaceful enjoyment of their possessions.
„Za reformy, za pokrok a stejné právo všem.“
„Aby člověk dosáhl toho, co je možné, musí usilovat o to, co je nemožné.“
„Zákony jsou pavučiny, skrze něž velké mouchy proletí, kdežto malé se do nich zapletou.“
„Když neusiluješ o nemožné, nedosahuješ toho, na co bys jinak měl.“
