Enemy Quotes

• Air power and military are meant to fight the enemy and not your own citizens... How do you differentiate a Maoist?... It will create a civil war-like situation.

  

  Kishore Chandra Deo
  • Power
  • War
  • Air

• Boys, do you hear that musketry and that artillery? It means that our friends are falling by the hundreds at the hands of the enemy, and here we are guarding a damned creek! Let's go and help them. What do you say?

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Enemy

• Our obligations and loyalty should not be to a government that will not take care of our needs. Our obligations and loyalty should not be to a government that has proven time and time again that it is the enemy of the people unless the people are rich in dollars.

  

  John Trudell
  • People
  • Time
  • Loyalty

• Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • Done
  • Think

• As an infantry officer who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, I have led men in combat and trained them on tactics and strategy. The mission of the infantry is to 'close with, and destroy, the enemy.' Our job, in a direct way, is to fight and win wars.

  

  Pete Hegseth
  • Men
  • Job
  • Enemy

• When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Why
  • Friends
  • Church

• Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Enemy
  • Strikes
  • Cheek

• All women should understand that a mammogram is nothing to be afraid of. It's not an enemy but a friend. Early detection is the key to the cure.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Women
  • Friend
  • Enemy

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

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Forgive

• 'Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.'

  

  Anne Rice
  • Interesting
  • Enemy

• You get freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get your freedom; then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Freedom
  • Enemy

• There is no way to know Jackson’s thought process as he prepared to engage the Union army in front of him. He knew very little about it and certainly he had no idea that, at the moment he ordered his men to advance, he was actually outnumbered five to one. But it was characteristic of the man that his means of determining the enemy’s strength was to hit the enemy in the face and then see what happened. Typical, too, was his impatience to fight. As at Port Republic, he chose to attack before his full force had arrived.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Men
  • Moment
  • Process

• Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

  

  Publilius Syrus
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• I think carpet bombing is an absolutely tremendous idea if the enemy accommodates you by laying himself out like a carpet in the middle of the desert without any civilians or infrastructure around him. Sadly, the Islamic State has learned that that is a losing proposition and does not accommodate us in that way.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Enemy
  • Desert
  • Islamic

• And if you want a commander in chief who will fulfill the most solemn obligation of the president to keep this nation safe, then support a candidate who has demonstrated the commitment, the judgment, the experience, the clarity of vision, to identify our enemy, to call it by its name, radical islamic terrorism.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Experience
  • Support
  • Vision

• He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Boredom

• You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.

  

  Paul Washer
  • People
  • God
  • Alone

• For cats, a hound is a natural enemy. This is the order of things.

  

  Kathi Appelt
  • Enemy

• Demonstrate to the world, there is 'No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy' than a U.S. Marine.

  

  James Mattis
  • World
  • Friend
  • Marine

• AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • People
  • God
  • Father

• When you edit, you imagine your enemy is seated on the other side of the table. Your enemy! And your enemy is going to read that with a viciousness, because he knows where you didn't work on it. He's going to shake it and really aim for that jugular. So you are going to polish, and revise, and rewrite, and cut out, and shape it, so that your enemy has no place to grip it. That's how you revise.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Cutting
  • Imagine
  • Aim

• Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Enemy
  • Thoughtful

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