Quotes About Fortification

India needs to intensify its security even if it mean people are inconvenienced.

Let's try to secure everything.

Why I'm dolling myself up like this…" "You're putting on armor. You want to be strong.

Defense is superior to opulence.

Being consulted again whether it were requisite to enclose the city with a wall, [Lycurgus] sent them word, 'The city is well fortified which hath a wall of men instead of brick'.

between the two fences were rolls of razor wire: more effective than dogs and less likely to eat drugged steaks.

Simply put - walls work.

Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.

Defense is superior to opulence.

The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.

A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.

Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls.

Peace be within thy walls and prosperity within they palaces.

They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.

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.

one who builds builds himself strong enough,shall not be attacked

But the experience of the world, from China to Britain, has exposed the vain attempt of fortifying any extensive tract of country. An active enemy, who can select and vary his points of attack, must, in the end, discover some feeble spot, on some unguarded moment. The strength, as well as the attention, of the defenders is divided; and such are the blind effects of terror on the firmest troops, that a line broken in a single place is almost instantly deserted.

What is the use of building an expensive house when it will soon be sacked?

The more you had, it seemed to me, the larger your border that needed defending.

If the Romans could have fortified their cities the way the human brain fortifies itself, we'd still be wearing togas. The mind is an amazing piece of biomachinery, really. A serious threat presents itself at the gate and up fly the walls, standing firm in the face of earth-shaking revelations, ideological bullets, and plain old logic.

If the Romans could have fortified their cities the way the human brain fortifies itself, we'd still be wearing togas.

who ruled the great region of Mercia after her husband died. She fortified towns and won battles.

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.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.