Civil Wars

Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or wars:

“Colonel Shaw
and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry
on St. Gaudens shaking Civil War relief,
propped by a plank splint against the garage’s earthquake.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)