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Letter "B" » bulwark
«The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.»
Author: William Blackstone
(Jurist)
| Keywords:
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«The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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«When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege: / Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
axe, besiege, bulwark, bulwarks, cut of meat, force field, siege, The Siege
«This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: / There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: / Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.»
«We must protect our citizens' privacy -- the bulwark of personal liberty, the safeguard of individual creativity.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
bulwark, individual liberty, personal liberty, privacy, safeguard, safeguarded, Safeguarding, safeguards
«The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime»
«The freedom of the press is on of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic government»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
bulwark, bulwarks, despotic, freedom of the press, liberty of the press, press, restrained, the press
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