The War Of 1812 Quotes

#1. Aboard a sailing ship sometime around the War of 1812,

Kate Milford

#2. The dey of Algiers took the occasion of the War of 1812 to renege on his treaty obligations with the United States;

Adrian Tinniswood

#3. I mean, when the British burned down the White House in the war of 1812, did we plant a "Tree of Remembrance" in the ashes, or did we get busy rebuilding?

Brian K. Vaughan

#4. So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver's butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.

Steve Vernon

#5. The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether.

Ira Progoff

#6. The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on both sides.

Charles R. Morris

#7. A prominent Chicago politician, Justin Butterfield, asked if he was against the Mexican War, replied: no, I opposed one War [the War of 1812]. That was enough for me. I am now perpetually in favor of war, pestilence and famine.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#8. Sir, when the love of peace degenerates into fear of war, it becomes of all passions the most despicable." - Senator Giles of Virginia, to President Thomas Jefferson, before the War of 1812

Joe Buff

#9. Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

Eric Nicol

#10. The War of 1812 was, at least in part, America's grand attempt to compel Europe to take the United States seriously as a sovereign nation.

Troy Bickham

#11. The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Solomon Short

#12. The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and II.

John Yoo

#13. I don't know about you, but where I went to school, Money Management 101 wasn't offered. Instead we learned about the War of 1812, which of course is something I use every single day.

T. Harv Eker

#14. When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in five were immigrants, and one in five was black - some were free, some slaves.

Martin O'Malley

#15. The Enlightenment faith that things are getting a little bit better each decade becomes difficult to support. People recognized that there had just been a war that was worse than the war of 1812, and worse than the Revolution; things were clearly not getting better and better.

Christine Jennings

#16. On the twelfth of June, 1812, the forces of Western Europe crossed the Russian frontier and war began, that is, an event took place opposed to human reason and to human nature.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.

Dave Malloy

#18. The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it became increasingly obvious that the nation was going to get into a war, especially since it was almost 1812.

Dave Barry