Peasant War

Famous quotes containing the words peasant and/or war:

“That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

“The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn’t.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)