Famous quotes containing the words irish, war, independence and/or truce:
“I was the rector’s son, born to the anglican order,
Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor;
The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept
With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
“It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“Our whole life is startingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)