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

    “The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.”
    —Peggy Noonan (b. 1950)

    “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)

    “Scholars planning a rebellion could never succeed even in three years.”
    —Chinese proverb.