Famous quotes containing the words war and/or destroys:
“Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)