Famous quotes containing the words years, war and/or peace:
“What is it then between us?
What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?
Whatever it is, it avails notdistance avails not, and
place avails not,”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
“He was ... a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and Ill show you a loser, show me a hero and Ill show you a corpse.”
—Mario Puzo (b. 1920)
“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)
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