Walls Built

Famous quotes containing the words walls and/or built:

    “It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed.”
    —George VI (1895–1952)

    “The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)