Hundred Years War/second Peace - 1389%e2%80%931415

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

    All through the years of our youth
    Neither could have known
    Their own thought from the other’s,
    We were so much at one.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
    George Washington (1732–1799)

    To many men ... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
    George Steiner (b. 1929)