Famous quotes containing the words october, war and/or jack:
“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”
—Aldous Huxley (18941963)
“This is the cat
That killed the rat”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 78)