Famous quotes containing the words western, front, world and/or war:
“It is so manifestly incompatible with those precautions for our peace and safety, which all the great powers habitually observe and enforce in matters affecting them, that a shorter water way between our eastern and western seaboards should be dominated by any European government, that we may confidently expect that such a purpose will not be entertained by any friendly power.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete,
And come to the front door mother, here’s a letter from thy dear
son.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“The world is made of sugar and dirt.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)
“Your length in clay’s now competent,
A long war disturbed your mind;”
—John Webster (c. 1580–1638)