Crusades/background

Famous quotes containing the words crusades and/or background:

“During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.”
—J.G. (John Gabriel)

“They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn’t know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)