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

    “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;Mit is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    “At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.”
    —Frederic Raphael (b. 1931)

    “Resolved, There can never be a true peace in this Republic until the civil and political rights of all citizens of African descent and all women are practically established. Resolved, that the women of the Revolution were not wanting in heroism and self-sacrifice, and we, their daughters, are ready, in this War, to pledge our time, our means, our talents, and our lives, if need be, to secure the final and complete consecration of America to freedom.”
    —Woman’s Loyal League (founded May 1861)