inch quotes

Not an inch of our territory or a stone of our fortresses.

-Jules Claude Gabriel Favre
  Reply to Bismarck's demands for concessions,18 Sep, following France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. Quoted in A  J P  Taylor TheStruggle for Mastery in Europe1848^1918 (1954), p.212.

A cubic inch of some stars weighs a hundred tonsBlue tit, who could measure the power of your tiny spark of energy?

- Norman Alexander MacCaig
  'Blue Tit on a String of Peanuts'.