Famous quotes containing the words american, civil and/or war:
“The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
“Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.”
—Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)
“But no, he only said,
“Well, there’s the storm. That says I must go on.
That wants me as a war might if it came.
Ask any man.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)