Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or day:
“During the Civil War the area became a refuge for service- dodging Texans, and gangs of bushwhackers, as they were called, hid in its fastnesses. Conscript details of the Confederate Army hunted the fugitives and occasional skirmishes resulted.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“This is perhaps a day of general honesty
Without example in the world’s history....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)