Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or war:
“Colonel Shaw
and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry
on St. Gaudens shaking Civil War relief,
propped by a plank splint against the garages earthquake.”
—Robert Lowell (19171977)
“The war is utter damn nonsensea vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking [sic] malignity on the part of those who dont do the fighting.”
—John Dos Passos (18961970)