Famous quotes containing the words wars and/or republic:
“The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)