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Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.
Horace Mann
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You don't fight a war with words, but with fortifications. The pickaxe and the shovel are as important at the rifle. I can't say it often enough.

buenaventura durruti

— Interview (3 October 1936), as quoted in Durruti in the Spanish Revolution (1996) by Abel Paz, as translated by Chuck W. Morse (2007), p. 537

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Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

george s. patton

— Quoted in 50 Military Leaders Who Changed the World? (2007) by William Weir, p. 173
— Unsourced variant: Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. Anything built by man, can be destroyed by him.

Tags: Fixed, monument, stupidity, man

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Some 5000 years ago, Diu was described as “Dev Bhadra”, or “fortress of the gods” in the epic Mahabharata . Even now, remains of the old fortifications can still be seen at low tide.


— Thing Asian, in Diu Island: Portugal, via Mumbai

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The fortifications of the city ...are so like those of the Kremlin that I could almost have fancied myself at Moscow .


— Bishop Heber, in 1824 in p.208 (A History of Jaipur: C. 1503-1938)

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Afonso de Albuquerque took the fort in 1510 and reinforced it initially after occupation and again in November after reoccupation... It is said that he was in such a hurry to complete the strengthen the fortifications before the next Muslim attack that even his officers were pressed into manual labour.

Paul Harding

— “Goa (2003)”, p.110

Tags: Albuquerque, fort, reinforced, initially, after, occupation, again, November, reoccupation

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