Caterpillar/defenses

Famous quotes containing the words caterpillar and/or defenses:

    That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at different periods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children’s children who may perchance be really free.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)