Fortress Quotes

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.

The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

Wisdom is a weapon to ward off destruction; It is an inner fortress which enemies cannot destroy.