Civil Wars

Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or wars:

“They have been waiting for us in a foetor
Of vegetable sweat since civil war days,
Since the gravel-crunching, interminable departure
Of the expropriated mycologist.”
—Derek Mahon (b. 1941)

“We have to have wars now and then just to prove we’re top dog.”
—Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935)