Irish Confederate Wars/the Plot %e2%80%93 October 1641

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

    “I hope you will not be washed away by the Irish sea.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)

    “Before now poetry has taken notice
    Of wars, and what are wars but politics
    Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “The westward march has stopped, upon the final plains of the Pacific; and now the plot thickens ... with the change, the pause, the settlement, our people draw into closer groups, stand face to face, to know each other and be known.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)