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The suicidally disgruntled were legion, And their enemies included any and all Americans, Brits, Canadians, Danes, et cetera; or, conversely, all Moslems,… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Racial rhetoric has been entwined with government from the start, all the way back to when the enemy was not Obamacare but… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
...unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
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The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I will not vote for Hillary, and I will not vote for Trump. At the end of the day, I believe that… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common… — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Therefore I say: know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The terrifying message of gay liberation is that men are capable of loving their brothers. It should be sweet news to every… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency. To cover up her corrupt dealings, Hillary illegally stashed… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see China as… — Dennis C. Blair Copy Share Image
Listen to me instead of your financial manager: It’s okay to spend money, to save it, to give it away, to worry… — Cassandra King Copy Share Image
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The war against Russia is an important chapter in the German nation's struggle for existence. [...] The objective of this battle must… — Franz Halder Copy Share Image
It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
The shame of the U.S.S. Liberty incident is that our sailors were treated as though they were enemies, rather than the patriots… — James Abourezk Copy Share Image
With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a… — William Eldridge Odom Copy Share Image
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
Rafe asks him, could the king's freedom be obtained, sir, with more economy of means? Less bloodshed? Look, he says: once you… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Fans are your greatest enemies because they tend to bracket you. And the moment someone expects I should do something, I break… — Anurag Kashyap Copy Share Image
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