fortress quotes

As in earlier days were our mechanics, such todayare our engineers, who may be required not only to tear down a fortress, and then to build it up again, but also to produce all sorts of engines based on mechanical principles, and with equal easeto defend or toannihilate a fortress.

-Jakob Leupold
  Theatrum machinarum.

Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.

- Arthur Miller
  Hale. The Crucible, act 2.

This is the story of the unconquerable fortressthe American home.

- David O(liver) Selznick
  SinceYouWent Away, opening line.