Famous quotes containing the words january, september and/or war:
“Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the dayswhatever there may be for the dustthe thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.”
—Woodrow Wilson (18561924)