Enemy Quotes

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There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should… — Ron Paul
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. — Richard Perle
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual… — Petrarch
My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll… — Unknown Author
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. — Wendell Phillips
The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense. — Pablo Picasso
Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative… — Steven Pinker
Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a pretext for retaliation by the enemy and alienate third parties who… — Steven Pinker
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… — Sylvia Plath
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what… — Plutarch
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy. — Colin Powell
Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and… — Colin Powell
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy. — Vladimir Putin
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. — Mario Puzo
We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's… — Queen Rania of Jordan
We do not celebrate the death of our enemies. — Yitzhak Rabin
Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our… — Tariq Ramadan
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. — Ronald Reagan
Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry. — Samuel Richardson

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