Famous quotes containing the words declare and/or war:
“Now owing, I’m much disposed to fear,
To his terrible taste for tippling,
That highly respectable gondolier
Could never declare with a mind sincere
Which of the two was his offspring dear
And which the Royal stripling.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“It is well that war is so terrible: we would grow too fond of it!”
—Robert E. Lee (1807–1870)