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Fortress Quotes

Fortress Definition  
I don't think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to be safe if we try a fortress mentality, to step back and say no one is going to hit us, they don't care about the United States. They do.
Kit Bond

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
Michael Chabon

I will withdraw to my fortress, and after the slaughter, I will restore order.
Ion Antonescu

I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe.
Heinrich Himmler

Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.
Todd McFarlane

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!
Philip Gibbs

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
Heinrich Heine

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
Marguerite de Valois

It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case.
Heinrich Himmler

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
Joseph Addison

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
Martin Luther

The fortress of Europe with its frontiers must be held and will be held too, as long as is necessary.
Heinrich Himmler

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
Edward Coke

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
Joseph De Maistre

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.
Winifred Holtby

Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant.
Hjalmar Schacht

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.
Vladimir Kramnik






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