Fortress
A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.
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Fortress Quotations
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
Martin Luther
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
Joseph De Maistre
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
Joseph Addison
In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
I don't think anyone who has followed the progress of the Islamofascist terrorists who have threatened us believe we are going to be safe if we try a fortress mentality, to step back and say no one is going to hit us, they don't care about the United States. They do.
Kit Bond
In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.
Heinrich Heine
Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.
King Abdullah II
Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant.
Hjalmar Schacht
Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.
Todd McFarlane
With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.
Vladimir Kramnik
Fortress Translations
fortress in Dutch is vesting
fortress in French is forteresse
fortress in German is Festung
fortress in Italian is fortezza
fortress in Latin is arx, pugnaculum
fortress in Norwegian is festning
fortress in Spanish is alcazaba, fortaleza
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