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Famous quotes containing the words irish, confederate, wars and/or war:

    “The Irish say your trouble is their
    trouble and your
    joy their joy? I wish
    I could believe it;
    I am troubled, I’m dissatisfied, I’m Irish.”
    —Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    “Figure a man’s only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.”
    —Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

    “Now his wars on God begin;
    At stroke of midnight God shall win.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The British blockade won the war; but the wonder is that the British blockhead did not lose it. I suppose the enemy was no wiser. War is not a sharpener of wits.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)