Famous quotes containing the words day and/or battle:
“Before a day was over,
Home comes the rover,
For mother’s kiss—sweeter this
Than any other thing!”
—William Allingham (1824–1889)
“The battle which I witnessed took place in the Presidency of Polk, five years before the passage of Webster’s Fugitive-Slave Bill.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)