The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
God is our fortress, in whose conquering name Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude. — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction. — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it… — Attila the Hun Copy Share Image
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease. — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
He'd gone to Louddon's fortress to take Madelyne captive. His plan was revenge; an eye for an eye. And that had been… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
If sometimes there seems to be a sort of sameness of sound in The New Yorker, it probably can be traced to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
At this point the question of Ukraine is the most important. The situation in Ukraine is very bad. If we don't take… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
We create an image of happiness and success and then we are beholden to it. We tell ourselves stories and sometimes these… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
What's this about?" "Finally. Interest," was the only response. "If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had ordered… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Peace is not something you fight for With bombs and missiles that kill, Nor can it be won in a "battle of… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
If [Chinese] are going to rip us off, you wouldn't think they'd be building fortresses. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image