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

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

    “The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
    —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)

    “Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”
    —Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)

    “Trade and the streets ensnare us,
    Our bodies are weak and worn;
    We plot and corrupt each other,
    And we despoil the unborn.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Especially when the October wind
    With frosty fingers punishes my hair,”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)