42 Quotes About Shields


  • Author Plutarch
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    Such power I gave the people as might do, Abridged not what they had, now lavished new, Those that were great in wealth and high in place My counsel likewise kept from all disgrace. Before them both I held my shield of might, And let not either touch the other's right.

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  • Author Plutarch
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    A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

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  • Author John Ralston Saul
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    The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.

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  • Author Roger Scruton
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    Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

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