Famous quotes containing the words western, front, world and/or war:
“It is the place where all the aspirations of the Western World meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“In front of dwarves one should not talk about midgets.”
—Chinese proverb.
“All the world is sad and dreary, Everywhere I roam.”
—Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)
“The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)