Eighty Years War/the Peace of M%c3%bcnster

Famous quotes containing the words years, war and/or peace:

    Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and justice.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    ... the ... radio station played a Chopin polonaise. On all the following days news bulletins were prefaced by Chopin—preludes, etudes, waltzes, mazurkas. The war became for me a victory, known in advance, Chopin over Hitler.
    Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)

    My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
    Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)