Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.
Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I'm trying to do here, clear a space in all the debris, through all the anxieties and worries, where I can just exist, easily and simply, entire, for as long as I have left.
State violence operating under the guise of personal safety and security, while parading as a bulwark of democracy, actually does the opposite and cancels out democracy as the incommensurable sharing of existence that makes the political possible.
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
. . . The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.
Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.
An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.
Not well-built walls, but brave citizens are the bulwark of the city.
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.
Mike Pence, when he was in Congress, voted against raising the minimum wage above $5. 15. And he has been a one-man bulwark against minimum wage increases in Indiana.
Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.
It is asserted by most respectable writers upon our government, that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, have ever been considered the bulwark of a free people. Tyrants have never placed any confidence on a militia composed of freemen.
I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
The law known as Marchetta, or Marquette, compelled newly married women to a most dishonorable servitude. They were regarded as the rightful prey of the Feudal Lord from one to three days after their marriage, and from this custom the eldest son of the serf was held as the son of the Lord. . . . Marquette was claimed by the Lord's Spiritual, as well as by the Lord's Temporal. The Church, indeed, was the bulwark of this base feudal claim.
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.
A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic oppression.
