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Quotes About Allies

War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.
~ Ian Rankin, Blood Hunt
The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.
~ George W. Bush
The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops.
~ Joseph Stilwell
When we inform, we lead from strength; when we communicate, we lead from weakness—and it is precisely this confession of mortality that engages the ears, heads and hearts of those we want to enlist as allies in a common cause.
~ Sydney J. Harris
However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.
~ Walter Martin
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
~ Joseph Conrad
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The present predicaments of Africa are often not a matter of personal choice: they arise from a historical situation. Their solutions are not so much a matter of personal decision as that of a fundamental social transformation of the structures of our societies starting with a real break with imperialism and its internal ruling allies. Imperialism and its comprador alliances in Africa can never develop the continent.
~ Ng?g? wa Thiong'o
Most people don't actually like the press. The friend of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.
~ Susan Estrich
President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions want to change the false Black Lives Matter narrative, but it doesn't look like they will have many allies among liberal mayors and their police commanders.
~ Heather Mac Donald
I want to reassure our NATO allies that if any of them get attacked, we'll be there to defend them.
~ Mitch McConnell
Russia's oil industry would be dominated by Putin and his allies. This policy had clear costs in terms of deterring foreign investment and reducing efficiency
~ Chris Miller
Khodorkovsky won few allies in this fight. His contempt for government officials was alienating, as were his demands that the government fire officials on the sole grounds that he found them incompetent
~ Chris Miller
The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.
~ Christopher Hitchens
They may fight with us, but they don't fight for us.
~ Christopher Paolini
Just remember," he said gently, "that at a certain point, your enemies may have to become your allies. Such is the nature of life.
~ Christopher Paolini
What was to be done with those who had not volunteered for the Germans, such as the millions of Soviet civilians whom the Nazis had forced to labor at gunpoint in German factories? And what of prisoners from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and parts of the western Ukraine? Since 1939, the USSR had claimed these territories as its own, but the Western Allies did not recognize them as such. Were prisoners from these regions to be considered Soviets?
~ Christopher Simpson
It is a serious thing for us Germans who have been pinning our faith on the Allies. It means concentration camp for us Socialists; the Russians have reopened the former Nazi camps in their zone of Germany and in Poland and are filling them with people of our sort.
~ Upton Sinclair
They would take advantage of an uprising to seize the reins themselves; they would turn upon their allies as they had done with Kerensky in Russia.
~ Upton Sinclair
Friend' is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.
~ Victor Hugo
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~ Kristin Hannah
Friends are nothing but a known enemy
~ Kurt Cobain
The Battle of the Bulge is sometimes characterized as Hitler's final desperate gamble, the last straw at which he grabbed. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Ardennes offensive was a major and carefully conceived maneuver, not merely to avert the defeat of the Third Reich, but also to administer a decisive blow to the Allies. It was developed long in advance and prepared with exceptional care, respectable ingenuity and considerable investment in human and material resources.
~ Ladislas Farago