Byzantine Civil War

Famous quotes containing the words civil war, civil and/or war:

“I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.”
—Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)

“At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
‘Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!’”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)