Enemy Quotes - page 2

The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe. (Andrew Jackson)
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
The best way to know and destroy an enemy is to pretend to become his friend. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Man has no greater enemy than himself. View quote
Petrarch
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. View quote
Claude Adrien Helvétius
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. View quote
Emil Cioran
Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. View quote
E. B. White
It is in disputes as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights, and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon. (Horatio Nelson)
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. View quote
John F. Kennedy
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. View quote
Sun Tzu
Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy! View quote
Robert Mugabe
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success. View quote
Erwin Rommel
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked. View quote
Montesquieu
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. View quote
Edmund Burke
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Art has an enemy called ignorance. View quote
Ben Jonson
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. (Joseph Heller)
I am more afraid of King Alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy. View quote
Stonewall Jackson
Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy. View quote
George Washington
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. View quote
Betty Friedan
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