Thirty Years War/swedish Intervention 1630-1635

Famous quotes containing the words years, war and/or intervention:

    “It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.”
    —Auberon Waugh (b. 1939)

    “Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.”
    —Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)

    “All of the assumptions once made about a parent’s role have been undercut by the specialists. The psychiatric specialists, the psychological specialists, the educational specialists, all have mystified child development. They have fostered the idea that understanding children and promoting their intellectual well-being is too complex for mothers and requires the intervention of experts.”
    —Elaine Heffner (20th century)