Famous quotes containing the words russian, civil, war and/or aftermath:
“The French courage proceeds from vanity—the German from phlegm—the Turkish from fanaticism & opium—the Spanish from pride—the English from coolness—the Dutch from obstinacy—the Russian from insensibility—but the Italian from anger.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Colonel Shaw
and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry
on St. Gaudens shaking Civil War relief,
propped by a plank splint against the garage’s earthquake.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“In war personal revenge maintains its silence.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)