Wars Holiday Special

Famous quotes containing the words wars, holiday and/or special:

“The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“A holiday is when you celebrate something that’s all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there’s nothing left to celebrate but the dead.”
—Abraham Polonsky (b. 1910)

“When, in some obscure country town, the farmers come together to a special town meeting, to express their opinion on some subject which is vexing to the land, that, I think, is the true Congress, and the most respectable one that is ever assembled in the United States.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)