Phony War

Famous quotes containing the words phony and/or war:

“Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversarists?”
—W.J. (William J.)

“Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)