Star Spangled War

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

    “The eager fate which carried thee
    Took the largest part of me:
    For this losing is true dying;
    This is lordly man’s down-lying,
    This his slow but sure reclining,
    Star by star his world resigning.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “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)