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Quotes About Enemy

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
~ George Washington
You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.
~ George S. Patton
I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!
~ Unknown
Our losses have reached an intolerable level. The enemy air force played a decisive role in inflicting these high losses.
~ Karl Donitz
The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy. ... Red China is not the powerful nation seeking to dominate the world.
~ Omar N. Bradley
This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.
~ Ishmael Beah
Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.
~ Sun Tzu
Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.
~ Douglas Hofstadter
...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot intervene.
~ Maxime Weygand
Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.
~ Sun Tzu
I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.
~ Douglas MacArthur
The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
~ Benazir Bhutto
Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
~ Bill Vaughan
It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one, to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous, to divide our army into two.
~ Sun Tzu
As one Israeli said, "It's a big mistake for Israel to say it 'won' the war, when there was no war. There were no battles...no military enemy in the field."
~ Norman Finkelstein
Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total.
~ Sun Tzu
I no longer fear Death, though I know that I should. I'm strangely at peace with what I used to think of as my enemy. Living seems more the taskmaster of the two, doesn't it? Life is wonderful and beautiful but oh, how hard it can be. Dying, by contrast, is easy and simple, almost gentle. But who can I tell such a thing to? No one. I am troubled by how remarkable this feeling is.
~ Susan Meissner
If I had learned anything from this past year, it is that despair is love's fiercest enemy.
~ Susan Meissner
Despair is love's fiercest enemy.
~ Susan Meissner
Trust the body of your enemy. The body does not lie. Most people," she'd looked directly at Mary, "most people do not know how to make the body lie.
~ Susan Rowland
Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I'll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out. The problem is, I can't tell what's real anymore, and what's made up.
~ Suzanne Collins
When you're in the arena... you just remember who the enemy is.
~ Suzanne Collins