Warring States

Famous quotes containing the words warring and/or states:

    “Where are now the warring kings,
    Word be-mockers? By the Rood
    Where are now the warring kings?
    An idle word is now their glory,
    By the stammering schoolboy said....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Nullification ... means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)