Star Spangled War

Famous quotes containing the words star, spangled and/or war:

    I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young
    And weep because I know all things now:
    I have been a hazel-tree, and they hung
    The Pilot Star and the Crooked Plough
    Among my leaves in times out of mind....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
    Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.
    Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)