Famous quotes containing the words irish, war, independence and/or truce:
“I hope you will not be washed away by the Irish sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (18841962)
“The Indians intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Our whole life is startingly moral. There is never an instants truce between virtue and vice.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)