Fortified Manor House

Famous quotes containing the words fortified and/or house:

    “No place is so strongly fortified that money could not capture it.”
    —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    “Amidst the downward tendency and proneness of things, when every voice is raised for a new road or another statute or a subscription of stock; for an improvement in dress, or in dentistry; for a new house or a larger business; for a political party, or the division of an estate;Mwill you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)