Famous quotes containing the words earth, defense and/or fleet:
“Man feeds the earth; the earth feeds man.”
—Chinese proverb.
“He said, truly, that the reason why such greatly superior numbers quailed before him was, as one of his prisoners confessed, because they lacked a cause,—a kind of armor which he and his party never lacked. When the time came, few men were found willing to lay down their lives in defense of what they knew to be wrong; they did not like that this should be their last act in this world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)