Famous quotes containing the words united, spanish and/or war:
“Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (19211990)
“Stiller ... took part in the Spanish Civil War ... It is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combineda rather romantic Communism, such as was common among bourgeois intellectuals at that time.”
—Max Frisch (19111991)
“In time of war you know much more what children feel than in time of peace, not that children feel more but you have to know more about what they feel. In time of peace what children feel concerns the lives of children as children but in time of war there is a mingling there is not childrens lives and grown up lives there is just lives and so quite naturally you have to know what children feel.”
—Gertrude Stein (18741946)