Famous quotes containing the words defence, guards and/or history:
“There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.”
—E.V. (Edward Verrall)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)