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

    “The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “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)

    “Which is better: to have Fun with Fungi or to have Idiocy with Ideology, to have Wars because of Words, to have Tomorrow’s Misdeeds out of Yesterday’s Miscreeds?”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    “The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)