Defense Quote by Plutarch

That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of brick.

— Anonymous

Do you know what Agelisas said, when he was asked why the great city of Lacedomonie was not girded with walls? Because, pointing out…

— Francois Rabelais

“Guymar pushed past his hesitation, said, ‘Our walls can withstand anything, but they’ll block the arrival of our reinforcements.’ He”

— C.S. Pacat

“Despite his obligation to other people, he wished at that moment he had walls.”

— Rachel Joyce

“Such a great shift in the world in those initial centuries, so many working to move past war, to heal, that the wall ……

— Sarah J. Maas

“It is not easy to describe lucidly in short notes to a poem the various approaches to a fortified castle,”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“There was no wall in her time.” “Right. And Queen Haywith refused to have one. She said a wall becomes a wall in the…

— Sage Blackwood

“Nor was this lessened by the knowledge that it was only a wall. There was nothing rational about a wall, whether it encircled Berlin,…

— Dorothy Gilman

“His protective wall had become a fortress holding him hostage rather than giving sanctuary.”

— Tammara Webber

“No wall can keep you safe," his father told him once, as they walked the walls of Winterfall. "A wall is only as strong…

— George R.R. Martin

“Lycurgus was of opinion that ornaments were so far from advantaging them in their counsels, that they were rather an hindrance, by diverting their…

— Plutarch

“A people ought to fight for the laws of the city as if they were its walls.”

— Karl R. Popper