The term Sacred War can refer to a number of wars:
- a series of wars carried out by members of the Amphictyonic League:
- First Sacred War (595 BC-585 BC)
- Second Sacred War (449 BC-448 BC)
- Third Sacred War (356 BC–346 BC)
- the song Svyaschennaya Voyna
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Famous quotes containing the words sacred and/or war:
“Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,—means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into present hour. All things are made sacred by relation to it,—one as much as another.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)