Fortification Quotes

A fortress is only as safe as the men who guard it.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Issue the orders Sir, and I will lay siege to Hell!

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

Defensively, I really feel like I've progressed and gotten better.

Every good thing great and small needs defense

God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.

From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

We announce, declare, ordain, and will that all the strongholds, either towns or castles, which are in the interior of our realm or provinces of the same, not situated in places of importance either for frontier defense or other considerations of weight, shall be razed and demolished; even ancient walls shall be destroyed so far as it shall be deemed necessary for the well-being and repose of our subjects and the security of this state, so that our said subjects henceforth need not fear that the said places will cause them any inconvenience, and so that we shall be freed from the expense of supporting garrisons in them

My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

Defense is something I take a lot of pride in.

No wall exists, however thick, that artillery cannot destroy.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

Obama took a tour of the Great Wall of China and said, 'We need one of these things around the White House.'

If a commanding General finds a necessity to seize the farm of a private owner, for a pasture, an encampment, or a fortification, he has the right to do so, and to so hold it, as long as the necessity lasts; and this is within military law, because [it is] within military necessity. But to say the farm shall no longer belong to the owner, or his heirs forever; and this as well when the farm is not needed for military purposes as when it is, is purely political, without the savour of military law about it. And the same is true of slave

Hold the fort! I am coming!

Defense. That' the thing I'm known for.

When a strong man armed, keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace

Paris must either not fall into the hands of the enemy or the enemy must find it only a wasteland.

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.

This is a hard country to defend.

The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense has a passive purpose: preservation; and attack a positive one: conquest.... If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.