Shield Quotes 

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics.It is at once our sword and our shield.
William Morris Hughes
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Thou comest to me with a sword, and with A spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. [...] And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with the sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.

david

— 1 Samuel 17:45-47 (KJV)

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And (Allah made) the kindness to parents as a protectional (shield) to His wrath and displeasure.

fatimah

— Ayan al-Sh?‘ah, vol.1, p.316

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Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.

Galileo Galilei

— Notes in a copy of Jean-Baptiste Morin's "Famous and ancient problems of the earth's motion or rest, yet to be solved" (published 1631), as quoted in The Crime of Galileo (1976) by Giorgio De Santillana, p. 167

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When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield.

walter scott

— Canto III, introduction.

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Oh! too convincing dangerously dear In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue at once her spear and shield.

lord byron

— Corsair, Canto II, Stanza 15.

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And (Allah made) the kindness to parents as a protectional (shield) to His wrath and displeasure.


— Ayan al-Sh?‘ah, vol.1, p.316

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They came with banner, spear, and shield, and it was proved in Bosworth field. Not long the Avenger was withstood, Earth help'd him with the cry of blood.

william wordsworth

— William Wordsworth, Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle, Stanza 3. Last line probably taken from John Beaumont's Battle of Flodden Field. Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 841-60.

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   I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.

Adam Lindsay Gordon

— 'The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).

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Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Ein'guteWehr und Waffen. A safe stronghold our God is still, A trusty shield and weapon.

Martin Luther

— 1529  Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott (translated by Thomas Carlyle).

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Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, Where shivered was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield!

walter scott

— Marmion, canto 6, stanza 34 (1808).

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Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;They took the spear, but left the shield.


— To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw. Compare: "When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatched the spear, but left the shield", Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Introduction to canto iii.

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Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.

ernesto 'che' guevara

— Rocinante was the name of Don Quixotes' horse.

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But who is this who rides in silver whiteAttire that shames the stars across the night?Helmet and shield and corselet all a-gleam,Like some crusader from a drifting dreamUpon a prancing jackass shod with flame—Rise, heralds of the past, bray forth his name

robert e. howard

— From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (c. November-December 1928)

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Farewel, thou cruel world! – to morrowNo more thy scorn my heart shall tear: –The grave will shield the child of sorrow,And heaven will hear the orphan's prayer.

matthew lewis

— "The Orphan's Prayer", line 29; cited from Titus Strong (ed.) The Common Reader (Greenfield, Mass.: Denio & Phelps, 1819) p. 174.

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A weapon that comes down as stillAs snowflakes fall upon the sod;But executes a freeman's will,As lightning does the will of God;And from its force nor doors nor locksCan shield you,—'t is the ballot-box.

john pierpont

— A Word from a Petitioner, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more.

john dryden

— John Dryden, Don Sebastian, Act I, scene 1.

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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Edmund Burke

— 1788-02-15.

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I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more.

john dryden

— Don Sebastian (1690), Act I scene i.

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I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone

leslie feist

— "Monarch" (Monarch (Lay Your Jewelled Head Down) (1999))

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The power of citizenship as a shield against oppression was widely known from the example of Paul 's Roman citizenship, which sent the centurion scurrying to his higher-ups with the message: "Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman".


— Robert H. Jackson, Edwards v. California, 314 U.S. 160, 182 (1941).

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"And in that hope, dear soul, let trouble have rest, Knowing I tarry for thee," and pointed to Mars, As he glow’d like a ruddy shield on the Lion’s breast.


— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Maud: A Monodrama", V, 11.

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What happened to the shield?


— Who: Droid
— Source: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
— After Anakin and Ahsoka Tano destroy a shield generator, the droids ponder what happened to it, but not too late after they get destroyed

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And O the buttercups! that field O' the cloth of gold, where pennons swam , Where France set up his lilied shield, His oriflamb, And Henry's lion-standard rolled: What was it to their matchless sheen, Their million million drops of gold Among the green!


— Jean Ingelow, The Letter L Present, Stanza 3.

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The most surprising and provocative occasions are those when Lewis himself departs from civil libertarian free speech orthodoxy. He is not, it turns out, a fan of an unqualified federal shield law that would protect reporters from the obligation to reveal their anonymous sources in criminal cases.


— Jeffrey Rosen (January 13, 2008). "Say What You Will - Freedom for the Thought That We Hate - Anthony Lewis - Book review". The New York Times (The New York Times Company). Retrieved on November 6, 2012. 

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Thou comest to me with a sword, and with A spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. [...] And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with the sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.


— 1 Samuel 17:45-47 (KJV)

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To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council; many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.


— Chapter 6. (Germania (98))

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March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us; Each heart is Freedom's shield, And heaven is shining o'er us.


— B. E. O'Meara, March to the Battle-Field.

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Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield!

walter scott

— Walter Scott, Marmion (1808), Canto VI, Stanza 34.

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Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific and dominated by the Canadian shield. The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.

harold innis

— Conclusion, p.393.

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