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Quotes About Enemy

It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy
~ Edward Gibbon
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~ Edward Gibbon
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~ Edward Gibbon
it was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline, that a good soldier should dread his officers far more than the enemy.
~ Edward Gibbon
This was it, the big moment: the corpse of his chief enemy, the ruins of his creator, the body of his dead father; the great weight of all that was unsaid and would never have been said; the pressure to say it now, when there was nobody to hear, and to speak also on his father's behalf, in an act of self-division that might fissure the world and turn his body into a jigsaw puzzle. This was it.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
It is an illusion of false zeal, and a temptation of the enemy, for young novices to begin to teach before they have learned themselves how to practise
~ Alban Butler
Instead of recognizing the State as "the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men," the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it not only as a final and indispensable entity, but also as, in the main, beneficent.
~ Albert Jay Nock
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
~ Aldous Huxley
Y es que así es el tiempo cuando maneja los sentimientos: caprichoso, impredecible, a veces un buen compañero y otras, el peor enemigo.
~ Alejandro Palomas
We will apply a military technique known as ambush. It is a military technique in which combatants take advantage of surprise and concealment to attack unsuspecting enemy from hidden location." Master Kung said with a smile.
~ Alex Anderson
Italian foe in Sicily. From now on, the men
~ Alex Kershaw
Power controlled or abridged is almost always the rival and enemy of that power by which it is controlled or abridged.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Winter was traditionally a quiet time for armies, summer being the accepted and most civilized season to recommence killing the enemy.
~ Alexander Rose
Meurs ! tu es l'ennemi de tout ce qui aime ; affaisse-toi sur ta solitude, n'attends pas la vieillesse ; ne laisse pas d'enfant sur la terre, ne féconde pas un sang corrompu ; efface-toi comme la fumée, ne prive pas le grain de blé qui pousse d'un rayon de soleil !
~ Alfred de Musset
I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn't waste their lives because I didn't have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.
~ Jim Mattis
I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
~ Isaac Brock
I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
~ Said Sayrafiezadeh
We must all build national unity, build all revolutionary forces, into one powerful wave to sweep away our main enemy, political imperialism and economic imperialism.
~ Sukarno
All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.
~ Paul von Hindenburg
I am certain - I am deadly certain that we cannot win this war unless we are free to call our enemy by name: Radical Islamicists and failed tyrants.
~ Michael T. Flynn
Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.
~ Chiang Kai-shek
In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.
~ David Brin
The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.
~ Walid Jumblatt
If the 'enemy combatant' cases of Padilla and Hamdi present a clash between liberty and security, each side champions one while giving short shrift to the other.
~ Benjamin Wittes