Famous quotes containing the words title and/or defenses:
“If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his ownthe road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simplea few plain wordsMy Heart Laid Bare. Butthis little book must be true to its title.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091845)
“We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our childrens children who may perchance be really free.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)