Enemy Quotes

In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy.

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us.

Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.

No plan of battle ever survives contact with the enemy.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Rhetorically, President Obama is a champion of bipartisanship. In practice, though, he is almost always its enemy.

History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.