Fortifications Quotes
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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
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
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)
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.
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
