Defence Quotes
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.733, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
"History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXVIII, section 44,
1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.8.
Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.
Oswald Spengler (1926). “The Decline of the West...: Form and actuality”
Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence.
Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”
What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?
'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 558
Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.
'Essay on Translated Verse' (1684) l. 113
Jonathan Swift, John Mitford (1871). “The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift”, p.235
William Shakespeare, H. R. Woudhuysen (1998). “Love's Labour's Lost: Third Series”, p.241, Cengage Learning EMEA