Famous quotes containing the words war and/or begins:
“Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skins and furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)