Venezuelan War of Independence/stalemate 1816

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

    “Our job is now clear. All Americans must be prepared to make, on a 24 hour schedule, every war weapon possible and the war factory line will use men and materials which will bring, the war effort to every man, woman, and child in America. All one hundred thirty million of us will be needed to answer the sunrise stealth of the Sabbath Day Assassins.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gay capital [Paris].”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

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