Spanish American War

Famous quotes containing the words spanish, american and/or war:

    “The Bermudas are said to have been discovered by a Spanish ship of that name which was wrecked on them.... Yet at the very first planting of them with some sixty persons, in 1612, the first governor, the same year, “built and laid the foundation of eight or nine forts.” To be ready, one would say, to entertain the first ship’s company that should be next shipwrecked on to them.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility—the American Dream.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “The man who fears war and squats opposing
    My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson
    But is fit only to rot in womanish peace”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)