Enemy Quotes
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“War, once declared, must be waged offensively, aggressively. The enemy must not be fended off; but smitten down. You may then spare him every exaction, relinquish every gain, but „til then he must be struck incessantly and remorselessly.”
Alfred Thayer Mahan
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Political correctness is the enemy of freedom because it rejects honesty and authenticity. We have to tackle it as the distortion of the truth.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
Major Owens
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The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such.
George Washington
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You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed.
Xenophon
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Big head, target for enemy; big heart, target for friend.
Confucius
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The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.
Brian Tracy
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
H. R. McMaster
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
E. B. White
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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.
John Byng
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Stay well away from the enemies of Allâh during their festivals.
Umar
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A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
Early Wynn
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
Gavin Newsom
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In fifty words: Granted mobility, security (in the form of denying targets to the enemy), time, and doctrine (the idea to convert every subject to friendliness), victory will rest with the insurgents, for the algebraical factors are in the end decisive, and against them perfections of means and spirit struggle quite in vain.
T. E. Lawrence
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I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.
Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
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Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
Baltasar Gracian
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No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
Rachel Carson
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The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.
Salman Rushdie
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Government is the enemy until you need a friend.
William S. Cohen
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'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
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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
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As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their best efforts to allay them.
Antoine-Henri Jomini
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Institutionalized racism is an imaginary enemy.
Bret Stephens
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There must be no concessions to the enemy. When a man is allowed to speak because he is rich and powerful, it aggravates the crime of denying the right to the poor and humble.
Frederick Douglass