Venezuelan War of Independence/stalemate 1816

Famous quotes containing the words war, independence and/or stalemate:

    “The war was a mirror; it reflected man’s every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.”
    —George Grosz (1893–1959)

    “Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.”
    —Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

    “Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs
    Better than all the stalemate an’s and ifs.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)