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  • We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Army Quotes , Cities Quotes
  • We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Cities Quotes
  • ...our cities of the present lack the outstanding symbol of national community which, we must therefore not be surprised to find, sees no symbol of itself in the cities. The inevitable result is a desolation whose practical effect is the total indifference of the big-city dweller to the destiny of his city.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Cities Quotes
  • But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Strong Quotes , Cities Quotes
  • What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Cities Quotes , Names Quotes
  • It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Cities Quotes , Trying Quotes
  • To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Cities Quotes , Two Quotes