Quotes About Enemies

Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. Emerson, Translation from Omar Chiam

Il est plus facile de se faire des ennemis que des amis, mais ces derniers sont plus utiles. Le

It is impossible to destroy all alleged enemies of freedom everywhere without also destroying freedom in the United States.

It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

Their not protesting against the present sinful confederacy with papists, malignants, and other enemies of religion and godliness; contrary to the Word of God, and former practice of this Church:

I have a feeling of - wanting to confront my enemies. No, of wanting to confront the enemy part of my friends.

It was the duty of any man to face his enemies without hesitation. This was a truth that Odd had been taught from the time he was old enough to learn. And he would never do anything less. But facing one's wife was a different matter. That was something he was very hesitant to do. Nor was he afraid to admit as much, and he doubted that any man would be.

Be your friend's true friend, to him and his friends, Thorgrim recalled the old saying. Beware of befriending an enemy's friend.

His own life made very little noise of its own, and he found that in silence there was something downright perilous: It had enemies in it that only sound could drive out.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

For a bounded, metaphysically veiled, and destined society, enemies are necessary, conflict inevitable, and war likely.

Strictly speaking, waste persons do not exist outside the boundaries of a society. They are not society's enemies. One does not go to war against them, as one goes to war against another society. Waste persons do not constitute an alternative or threatening society; they constitute an unveiling culture. They are therefore "purged". A society cleanses itself of them.

War is not an act of unchecked ruthlessness but a declared contest between bounded societies, or states. If a state has no enemies it has no boundaries.

The strategy of finite players is to kill a state by killing the people who invented it. Infinite players, however, understanding war to be a conflict between states, conclude that states can have only states as enemies; they cannot have persons as enemies.

When asked years later why Lincoln had won, he said: "The leader of a political party in a country like ours is so exposed that his enemies become as numerous and formidable as his friends.

The trouble about Mr Crawford,' said Kate, 'is that he puts up with his enemies and plays merry hell with his friends.

Your husband appears to possess an uncanny gift for seducing his enemies.

Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of [the eagle's] own plumes…. We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.