Air Defence Missile

Famous quotes containing the words air, defence and/or missile:

    “Hast not thy share? On winged feet,
    Lo! it rushes thee to meet;
    And all that Nature made thy own,
    Floating in air or pent in stone,
    Will rive the hills and swim the sea,
    And, like thy shadow, follow thee.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “They aroused me to a determination to understand more fully the position of women, and the character of those men who talk so much of the need of our being “protected”Mremoving from us, meanwhile, what are often the very weapons of our defence [sic], occupations, and proper and encouraging remuneration.”
    —Harriot K. Hunt (1805–1875)

    “... the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)