Nebuchadnezzar II Quotes

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.

My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?

As enemies do not hurt these beings, when they are sheltered by their fortresses, even so foes can not injure a king who has taken refuge in his fort. Let that fort be well supplied with weapons, money, grain and beasts of burden, with Brahmanas, with artisans, with engines, with fodder, and with water.

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

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe.

My bedroom's like an armoury.

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

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

We cannot protect everything, all of the time.

There is no safety where there is no strength.

Fighting men are the city's fortress.

… without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.... Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

On the East Coast, men might fear a standing army; in the West, they clamored for one that could protect them.

That's what I hang my hat on, is defence.

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

Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out the inhabitants and citizens of the city, so expert in military discipline and so strong and well armed: "Here," he said, "are the walls of the city," meaning that there is no wall but of bones, and that towns and cities can have no more secure nor stronger wall than the virtue of their citizens and inhabitants.

The word SECURITY is the first and last chapter of the constitution of France.

We cannot measure our safety in terms of miles on a map any more.

I wish for an America no less alert in guarding against dangers from within than it is watchful against enemies from without.

Security is for cadavers.

These are the walls of Sparta. Cities should be walled with the courage of the inhabitants.

No place is weak where there are men capable of defending it.

If and when the war starts (anti-Japanese war), where ever you are, North or South, young or old, who ever you are, you all have the responsibility of protecting our home and repelling the enemy, you all must have the will to achieve ultimate sacrifice.