Civil War General

Famous quotes containing the words civil war, civil, war and/or general:

    “One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “Come, civil night,
    Thou sober-suited matron all in black.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Now, were I once at home, and in good satire,
    I’d try conclusions with those Janizaries,
    And show them what an intellectual war is.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.”
    —Morning Prayer, General Confession, Book of Common Prayer (1662)