Famous quotes containing the words prevents and/or rebirth:
“Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“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)