Famous quotes containing the words indian, army, world and/or war:
“We had not gone far before I was startled by seeing what I thought was an Indian encampment, covered with a red flag, on the bank, and exclaimed, “Camp!” to my comrades. I was slow to discover that it was a red maple changed by the frost.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“An army is maintained for a thousand days all to be used on one morning.”
—Chinese proverb.
“If all the world could have seen ‘t, the woe had been universal.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)