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Quotes About Enemy

A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right.
~ Alice Thomas Ellis
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
~ Eric Hoffer
Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy.
~ Sa'di
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
~ Robert Frost
Iran is not an enemy of ISIS; they have a lot to gain from the turmoil that ISIS creates.
~ Jim Mattis
It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Every time I kill someone, he can't plant an I.E.D. You don't think twice about it.
~ Chris Kyle
I believe that people want to be free. And that we face an enemy that murders innocent people to try to shake our psychology to get us to leave.
~ George W. Bush
the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!
~ William Halsey
It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.
~ Haile Selassie
The enemy has assailed my outposts in heavy force. I have fallen back on the line of Bull Run and will make a stand at Mitchell's Ford.
~ P. G. T. Beauregard
No war is over until the enemy says it's over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote.
~ James Mattis
Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.
~ George S. Patton
It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated.
~ Knute Nelson
Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.
~ Theodore C. Sorensen
The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected.
~ Chester W. Nimitz
It has always been my ideal in war to eliminate all feelings of hatred and to treat my enemy as an enemy only in battle and to honour him as a man according to his courage.
~ Ernst Junger
I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
~ George Armstrong Custer
The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!
~ Erwin Rommel
In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.
~ Mao Zedong