Quotes About Enemies

Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell him.

Flattery makes friends, truth enemies.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself-an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

One enemy is too many; a hundred friends too few.

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Historically, defense spending cuts have preceded increased international turmoil as America's global enemies sense a failure of will.

I have no one at my side except God and His angels. I pray to God that He will turn my enemies into pillars of salt.

Daddy taught us through his philosophy of nonviolence, which placed love at the centerpiece, that through that love we can turn enemies into friends. Through that love, we can create more dignified atmospheres.

The unhappy never want enemies.

Let's play it safe. I'm not in the mood to run right now and I know fighting is suicide. Last thing I want to do is make my enemies happy by dying. (Syn)

Woodrow Wilson says that if you want to make enemies, try to change something! Well, I think there is an easier way to make enemies: Tell the truths!

May God have mercy for my enemies because I won't.

I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

When you see contention amongst your enemies, go and sit at ease with your friends; but when you see them of one mind, string your bow, and place stones upon the ramparts.

The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.

The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

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.

Those who would wage war, should first eliminate all domestic enemies before proceeding to attack the external foe.

The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them.

Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.