Star Spangled War

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

    “The flame from the angel’s sword in the garden of Eden has been catalysed into the atom bomb; God’s thunderbolt became blunted, so man’s dunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.”
    —Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)

    “Bare night is best. Bare earth is best. Bare, bare,
    Except for our own houses, huddled low
    Beneath the arches and their spangled air,
    Beneath the rhapsodies of fire and fire,
    Where the voice that is in us makes a true response....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
    —Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)