Famous quotes containing the words west, american, civil and/or war:
“East Side, West Side,
All around the town.”
—Charles B. Lawlor (1852–1925)
“The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“Come, civil night,
Thou sober-suited matron all in black.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)