Friso-hollandic Wars/the West Frisian War 1256-1289

Famous quotes containing the words wars, west and/or war:

    Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed.
    —Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

    I see my light come shining
    From the west unto the east
    Any day now, any day now,
    I shall be released.
    Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)

    We are constantly thinking of the great war ... which saved the Union ... but it was a war that did a great deal more than that. It created in this country what had never existed before—a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union, it was the rebirth of the Union.
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)