Famous quotes containing the words war and/or dead:
“I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)