
If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high
ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue. —
Sun Tzu

That was his phrase - "the high
ramparts of my defensiveness"- and I remembered it in case I ever decide to build and then describe my own
ramparts. —
Brock Clarke

To stand upon
ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic. —
Franklin D. Roosevelt

To a gargoyle on the
ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. Why was I not made of stone like thee? —
Victor Hugo

I walk the
ramparts at night in a white dress and a knee-length woven cloak. The weather's turning. I feel the roses in my cheeks. —
Rainbow Rowell

The castle's predecessor, the Roman villa, had been unfortified, depending on Roman law and the Roman legions for its
ramparts. —
Barbara W. Tuchman