Civil Wars

Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or wars:

    “If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?”
    —Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 3 (1962)

    “Now his wars on God begin;
    At stroke of midnight God shall win.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)