Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or bend:
“How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)