“Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.”
John Hale
The Crucible (1953)
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About the fortress Igi-hursaja.
Correspondence of the Kings of Ur, Letter from Shulgi to Puzur-Shulgi about work on the fortress Igi-hursanga http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section3/tr3108.htm
Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 23, The great dystopia of 1984, p. 298
“There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.”
Clive Foss, The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption, London: Quercus Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1905204965 , p. 131
Contemporary witnesses
“The best possible fortress is—not to be hated by the people.”
Variant: Variant translation: The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.
Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 20: 'Are fortresses, and many other things to which princes often resort advantageous or hurtful?'
“A weak enemy in the fortress is more fearsome than the strongest outside.”
Ein schwacher Feind in der Festung ist fürchterlicher als der stärkste von außen.
Ardinghell and the Blessed Islands (1787).
“I built the fortress of my character with all the bricks that pulled me.”
From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale
Original: (it) Ho costruito la fortezza del mio carattere con tutti i mattoni che mi hanno tirato addosso.
“He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery,
And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.”
I Am a Rock
Song lyrics, Sounds of Silence (1966)
(January 1918).
I'm Glad You Asked Me That (2007)