Enemy Quotes

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.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.

There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

Since January 2002, when the United States began detaining at Guantanamo Bay enemy combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other fronts in the war on terror, critics have complained of human rights abuses.