A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

My point was simply that the war on global terrorism is going to be a long one, and we need to adapt as our enemy adapts.

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.

If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.

Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.

Divorce is horrible. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. I don't think it's anything that's ever completely resolved.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.

When I used to work at Friday's, in a restaurant, that endless appetizer, that was my worst enemy as a server. Oh my god.

I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

We will be in tune with our bodies only if we truly love and honor them. We can't be in good communication with the enemy.

Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.

It is unethical for any man to tax another man's home to fund his social agenda. Friends don't do that, your enemies will.

His enemies had counted on the lions taking care of Daniel. What they hadn't counted on was his God taking care of Daniel.

Many of my personal enemies picture me as a cold type - a person who acts according to a certain line, a calculating type.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.

To oblige a friend by inflicting an injury on his enemy is often more easy than to confer a benefit on the friend himself.

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.

It is good if your enemy underestimates you. The dumber they think you are the more surprised they are when you kill them.

That's the way it goes sometimes: in order to help your friends, first you have to help your enemy. Better get used to it.

The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.

One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]

Do not delegate an assignment and then attempt to manage it yourself - you will make an enemy of the overruled subordinate.

The enemies of American civilization-- for such are the enemies of slavery-- seem to be more on the alert than its friends.

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

We need American foreign policy that tells the world very clearly that it is bad to be our enemy and good to be our friend.

President Lincoln chose to fight a bloody and unpopular war because he believed the enemy had to be defeated. He was right.

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.

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.

Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed at oneself.

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

[Dissidents] groups would benefit enormously from learning about Ho Chi Minh's ideas on how to defeat a more popular enemy.

Trust God to take care of you in all circumstances. Do you realize what the enemy will lose if you surrender and trust God?

We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

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