Famous quotes containing the words defence, guards and/or history:
“There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.”
—E.V. (Edward Verrall)
“Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.”
—Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929)