Civil war Quote by Len Deighton

“I think you should be grateful to the English, they built this country and made it civil.”

— Peter Murphy

“Once the American Revolution is understood as a civil war, much falls into place.”

— Daniel Hannan

“Has there ever been a country that, once colonized, avoided civil war?”

— Roma Tearne

“By the early seventies I had become an Englishman – that is to say, I hated England just as much as half of my…

— Nick Hornby

“The Civil War was pre-eminently a political war, a war of peoples rather than of professional armies.”

— James M. McPherson

“If England wants a happy, well-fed aristocracy, she mustn't have wars. She can't have it both ways.”

— P G Wodehouse

“of the Civil War. They became famously”

— John Metcalfe

“Even when the British took part in these wars, they fought on other people's territory or at sea.”

— Thomas Sowell

“And though they were called savages, even a prominent English general, Philip Sheridan, had to admit, “We took away their country and their means…

— Christina Baker Kline

“Deep down in his heart the genuine Englishman has a rugged distaste for seeing his country invaded by a foreign army. People were asking…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“This is certainly a beautiful country!  In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed…

— Emily Brontë

“Seriously. What was with British people? They didn't hug, and they sang their national anthem as if they ruled the world, which in fact…

— Rachel Van Dyken