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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)

    “The soger frae the wars returns,
    The sailor frae the main,
    But I hae parted frae my Love,
    Never to meet again, my dear,
    Never to meet again.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “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)