Enemy Quotes

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

Better is the enemy of good.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.

The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wait until they hit you again. In my estimation, America chose the first.

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander.

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you now Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.