Fortification Quotes

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

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

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.

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

Every good thing great and small needs defense

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

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.

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.’

Defense is something I take a lot of pride in.

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

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

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

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.

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.

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

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.